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• Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

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  Desire, Waking Life, World

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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• They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

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  Stars, Past, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

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• The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

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  Army, Desert, Sand

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.424, Pan Macmillan

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• in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

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  Dream, Extravagance, Cases

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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• It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in that inexplicable darkness. Where there was no sound anywhere save only the wind. After a while he sat in the road. He took off his hat and placed it on the tarmac before him and he bowed his head and held his face in his hands and wept. He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.

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  Dog, Rain, Night

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• In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms, but not in its substance. And a deep conviction that nothing can be proven except that it be made to bleed. Virgins, bulls, men. Ultimately God himself.

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  Heart, Men, Great Love

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.

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  Flower, Dark, Flames

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.40, Vintage

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• Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.

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  Lying, Book, Years

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

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• You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.

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  Sex, Mouths, Screw You

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

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  Country, Children, War

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.335, Vintage

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• Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.

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  Real, Blessing, Dying

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.

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  Lying, Book, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.122, Vintage

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• Teaching writing is a hustle.

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  Teaching, Writing, Hustle

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• Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

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  Memories, Violence

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

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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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  Truth, Often Is, Names

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.433, Pan Macmillan

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• I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

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  Luck, Be Careful, Careful

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• I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.

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  Cowboy, World, West

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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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  Dream, Democracy, Pilgrim

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

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  Writing, Bored, Doe

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• There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.

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  Fall, Boys, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.30, Vintage

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• I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.

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  Done, Reason, Said

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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• We're carrying the fire.

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  Fire

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

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  Men, Covenant, Judgment

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• The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

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  Flames, Martyr, Candidates

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.941, Pan Macmillan

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• People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

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  Book, Years, People

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