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Cormac McCarthy

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He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.


— Cormac McCarthy


#forgiveness #god #religion #forgiveness

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream


— Cormac McCarthy


#dreams

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.


— Cormac McCarthy


#horse #man #friendship

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.


— Cormac McCarthy


#freedom #frontier #individualism #justice #liberalism

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.


— Cormac McCarthy


#freedom #insult #freedom

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.


— Cormac McCarthy


#death

Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now


— Cormac McCarthy


#life

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.


— Cormac McCarthy


#dreams

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.


— Cormac McCarthy


#inspirational

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.


— 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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