Cormac McCarthy

United States
Born on 20 Jul 1933
Writer

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Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money did not change.

No Country for Old Men
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

The Crossing
No creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

All the Pretty Horses
Things happen to you, they happen. They don't ask first. They don't require your permission.

No Country for Old Men
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.

All the Pretty Horses
Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.

All the Pretty Horses
When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

The Road
Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

The Crossing
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

All the Pretty Horses
All the time you spend trying to get back what hass been took from you there is more going out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

No Country for Old Men
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