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Cormac McCarthy

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What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.


— Cormac McCarthy


#perseverance #perseverance

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.


— Cormac McCarthy


#god #son #child

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


— Cormac McCarthy


#honor #men #women #forgiveness

You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.


— Cormac McCarthy


#sex #men

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.


— Cormac McCarthy


#knowledge

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.


— Cormac McCarthy


#bored #does #else #failures #i

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


— Cormac McCarthy


#intelligence

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.


— Cormac McCarthy


#suicide #death

Where men can't live gods fare no better.


— Cormac McCarthy


#men

I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.


— Cormac McCarthy


#love






About Cormac McCarthy






Did you know about Cormac McCarthy?

He won the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road (2006). In a 2006 poll of authors and publiCormac McCarthyrs conducted by The New York Times Magazine to list the greatest American novels of the previous quarter-century Blood Meridian placed third behind only Toni Morrison's Beloved and Don DeLillo's Underworld. The book has grown appreciably in stature in literary circles.

Blood Meridian (1985) was among Time magazine's list of 100 best English-language books publiCormac McCarthyd 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 publiCormac McCarthyd in the last 25 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time alongside Don DeLillo Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth and called Blood Meridian "the greatest single book since Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying". All the Pretty Horses and The Road were also adapted as motion pictures.

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