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Cormac McCarthy

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The point is there ain't no point.


— Cormac McCarthy


#men

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


— Cormac McCarthy


#mystery #atheism

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


— Cormac McCarthy


#life #humor

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.


— Cormac McCarthy


#life #loneliness #life

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.


— Cormac McCarthy


#narcotics #men

You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.


— Cormac McCarthy


#love #son #love

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.


— Cormac McCarthy


#fire #hope #inspirational #persistence #attitude

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.


— Cormac McCarthy


#men

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.


— Cormac McCarthy


#life

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things


— Cormac McCarthy


#men






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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