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People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

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People, Complaining, Ems

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He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

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Punishment, Comfort, World

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.

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Promise, Littles, Break

Joe Penhall, Cormac McCarthy (2014). “The Road”, p.13, A&C Black

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He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.

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Giving, Lovers, Give Me

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

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It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.

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Distance, Thinking, Doe

Cormac McCarthy (1999). “Cities of the plain”, Vintage

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He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

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Book, Reality, Men

Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.637, Pan Macmillan

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I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

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Crazy, Insanity, Together

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Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

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Creation, Existence, Consent

Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

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This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.

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War, Games, Unity

Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

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People, Stories, Life Is

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing: Book 2 of The Border Trilogy”, p.387, Vintage

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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.

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Dream, Color, Dawn

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?

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Crazy, Notion

Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.175, Vintage

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and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as if to slow the world that was rushing away and seemed to care nothing for the old or the young or rich or poor or dark or pale or he or she. Nothing for their struggles, nothing for their names. Nothing for the living or the dead.

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Struggle, Dark, Hands

Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

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The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

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Real, Men, Thinking

Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.226, Vintage

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It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even what you might know about and them claims can be very strong indeed. Very strong indeed.

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Strong, Community, Want

Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.124, Vintage

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He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

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Long, Littles, Sat

Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.874, Pan Macmillan

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Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.

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Son, Papa, Arms

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.298, Pan Macmillan

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Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.

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Dark, Men, Rocks

Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

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You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.

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Each the others world entire.

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World

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?

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Gone, Lasts

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

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Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

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Lasts, Left

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.179, Pan Macmillan

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They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing.

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Horse, Dark, Night

Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

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Sea, Vapor, Firsts

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It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.

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Thinking, Special, Might

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Born: July 20, 1933
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