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• I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West.

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  Cowboy, World, West

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• Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

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  Desire, Waking Life, World

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

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• There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us.

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  Fall, Boys, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.30, Vintage

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• In the nights sometimes now he'd wake in the back and freezing waste out of softly colored worlds of human love, the songs of birds, the sun.

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  Song, Night, Bird

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• Suttree surfaced from these fevered deeps to hear a maudlin voice chant latin by his bedside, what medieval ghost come to usurp his fallen corporeality. An oiled thumball redolent of lime and sage pondered his shuttered lids.Miserere mei, Deus ...His ears anointed, his lips ... omnis maligna discordia ... Bechrismed with scented oils he lay boneless in a cold euphoria. Japheth when you left your father's house the birds had flown. You were not prepared for such weathers. You'd spoke too lightly of the winter in your father's heart. We saw you in the streets. Sad.

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  Latin, Father, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.447, Pan Macmillan

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• See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.

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  Children, Fire, Shirts

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you know, afresh. It forces the world on you. And I think it's a good thing.

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  Children, Thinking, Naps

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