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The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.
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Where is yesterday? … And where is the fiddler and where is the dance?
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You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There ain't no such thing as a bargain promise.
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He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.
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My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
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He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.
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It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world.
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The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
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The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.
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The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.
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Our enemies... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.
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People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
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There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
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The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
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They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.
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They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tideline a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as the eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless.
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The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.
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Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
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In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.
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In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
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The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Cormac McCarthy
Born:
July 20, 1933
Died:
June 13, 2023
(aged 89)
Bio:
Cormac McCarthy was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and post-apocalyptic genres.
Known for:
The Road (2006)
Blood Meridian (1985)
All the Pretty Horses (1992)
No Country for Old Men (2005)
Child of God (1973)
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