Cormac McCarthy

United States
Born on 20 Jul 1933
Writer

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On Intelligence:

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

All the Pretty Horses

On Death:

When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.

The Road

On Woman:

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

All the Pretty Horses

On War:

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

On Expectation:

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

The Road

On Will:

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

All the Pretty Horses

On Past:

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it�s made out of. Nothin else.

No Country for Old Men

On Past:

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

All the Pretty Horses

On Forget:

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

The Road

On Luck:

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

No Country for Old Men
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