Cormac McCarthy
American · 1933–2023
American novelist whose biblical prose and unsparing vision of violence, landscape, and human extremity made him one of the supreme voices in American literature. His work moves at the border of language and silence, where moral certainty dissolves into the indifference of nature.
Wikipedia ↗“He turned and looked back at the steps he had come down. Where you've been is not important. Where you are is not important. The only thing that's important is where you're going.”
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“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
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“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
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“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
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“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
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“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe.”
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
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