Cormac McCarthy Quotes

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

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• When the lambs is lost in the mountain, they is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

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  Topics in Mother, Truth

  Tags in Cry, Mountain

• If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

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

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• There is no God and we are his prophets.

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  Topics in Religion

• Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

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  Topics in Life

• 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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  Topics in God

• He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men’s claims to know God’s mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

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• Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don’t have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It’s not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn’t have done it that way.

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  Topics in Creation, Work

• …He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

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• Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

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  Topics in Death

• Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

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  Topics in Life

• Your heart’s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

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  Tags in Mystery, Desire

• You are either born a writer or you are not.

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  Tags in Writer, Either, Writing

• I felt early on I wasn’t going to be a respectable citizen.

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  Tags in Respectable, Citizen

• 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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  Tags in Writing, Bored, Something

• 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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  Tags in Yourself, Happen, Available

Cormac McCarthy (17)

Birth:	20th July, 1933
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter

About

Cormac McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road. His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Blood Meridian was among Time magazine's list of 100 best English-language books published between 1923 and 2005 and placed joint runner-up in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years.

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