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• Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

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  Men, Existence, Knows

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

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• In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

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  War, Men, Vigor

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.331, Pan Macmillan

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• He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches, with the oaks. A cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead. Everything had fallen from him. He scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care. He lay on his back in the gravel, the earth's core sucking his bones, a moment's giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space, over the offside of the planet, hurtling through the high thin cirrus.

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  Fall, Blood, Space

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• By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

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  Book, Sixteen, Freethinker

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

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• I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

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  Thinking, People, Unhappy

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

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  Death, Memories, Bitter

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

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• You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.

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  Promise, Pay, Too Much

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage

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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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  Reality, Drawing, Color

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.75, Vintage

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• Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes only. A train, a wall, a world. Or a man. A thing dangling in senseless articulation in a howling void. No meaning to its life. Its words. Why would I seek the company of such a thing? Why?

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  Wall, Good Day, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.51, Pan Macmillan

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• Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

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  Pain, Pale, Loses

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.301, Pan Macmillan

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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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  Women, Machines, Suppression

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

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  Eye, Space, Forever

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

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• Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

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  Rain, Men, Weather

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• I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

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  Mean, Gone, World

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• From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

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  Summer, Dark, Remembers Everything

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.16, Vintage

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• By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as the eye could see. They grouped in the road at the top of a rise and looked back. The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place n the iron dark of the world.

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  Eye, Dark, Wind

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness.

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  Dawn, Want, Infinite

  "Fictional character: White". "The Sunset Limited", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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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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  Thinking, People, Desire

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• If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?

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  People, Stories, Ifs

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

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• Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

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  Said, Wounded, Happens

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

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  Knowing Who You Are, Starting Over, Forever

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.227, Vintage

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• Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

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  War, Men, Strange

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.264, Pan Macmillan

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• The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.

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  Voice, Silence, Speak

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• The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.

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  Mother, Wind, Earth

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• Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

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  Work, Giving, Next

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