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• It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

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  Betrayal, Coward, Firsts

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.224, Pan Macmillan

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• In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

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  Dream, Democracy, Pilgrim

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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• This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.

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  War, Games, Unity

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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• They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

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  Stars, Past, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

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• Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

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  Creation, Existence, Consent

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

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• I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

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  Luck, Be Careful, Careful

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• People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

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  Book, Years, People

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• You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.

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• The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge

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  Believe, Men, Judging

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• The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.

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  Morning, Night, Long

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

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  Men, Odds, Mind

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• When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.

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  Mean, Doe, Way

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• A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.

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  Heart, Fate, Destiny

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• I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

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  Original Thought, Scent, Divinity

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• A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

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  Horse, Jobs, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

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• Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

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  Horse, Men, Illusion

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

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  Dies

  "Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West".

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• The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

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  Real, Men, Thinking

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.226, Vintage

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• and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as if to slow the world that was rushing away and seemed to care nothing for the old or the young or rich or poor or dark or pale or he or she. Nothing for their struggles, nothing for their names. Nothing for the living or the dead.

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  Struggle, Dark, Hands

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

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

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  Country, Children, War

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.335, Vintage

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• He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

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  Book, Reality, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.637, Pan Macmillan

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• It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.

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  Distance, Thinking, Doe

  Cormac McCarthy (1999). “Cities of the plain”, Vintage

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• We're carrying the fire.

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  Fire

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him and cried for light. If there be any art in the weathers of this earth. Or char these bones to coal. If you can, if you can. A blackened rag in the rain.

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  Art, Rain, Weather

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.440, Pan Macmillan

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• Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now

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  Forever, Enterprise, Doomed

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.407, Pan Macmillan

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