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Cormac McCarthy

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The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.


— Cormac McCarthy


#attitude

where'd you get that pistol? At the gettin place


— Cormac McCarthy


#men

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.


— Cormac McCarthy


#inspirational #inspirational

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.


— Cormac McCarthy


#love #love

He looked into those blue eyes like a man seeking some vision of the increate future of the universe.


— Cormac McCarthy


#love

It is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.


— Cormac McCarthy


#men

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.


— Cormac McCarthy


#men

I was a soldier. It is like a dream. When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk to you, you don't wake up forever.


— Cormac McCarthy


#war #dreams

In the grueling light that passed for day...


— Cormac McCarthy


#life-and-death #death

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.


— Cormac McCarthy


#life-and-death #death






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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