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    Cormac McCarthy

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    All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. ↗


    — Cormac McCarthy

    #beauty #cherishing #grace #grief #hurt

    Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. ↗


    — Cormac McCarthy

    #foreigners #home #settling #strangers #men

    ...He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. ↗


    — Cormac McCarthy

    #haunting #literature #death

    He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing. ↗


    — Cormac McCarthy

    #life

    Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change. ↗


    — Cormac McCarthy

    #change

    The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't. ↗


    — Cormac McCarthy

    #love #love

    This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job. ↗


    — Cormac McCarthy

    #child #death #job #death

    I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this. [Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992] ↗


    — Cormac McCarthy

    #author-quotes #creative-process #earning-a-living #gift #humor

    See the child. ↗


    — Cormac McCarthy

    #first-sentence

    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. ↗


    — Cormac McCarthy

    #men






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    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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