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Cormac McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is known for his spare, violent, and often morally ambiguous writing style.

McCarthy was born in Rhode Island and raised in Tennessee. He attended the University of Tennessee and the University of Texas at El Paso. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1953 to 1955.

McCarthy's first novel, The Orchard Keeper, was published in 1965. He has since published 11 more novels, including Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. He has also written two plays and several screenplays.

McCarthy has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is considered one of the most important American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

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Time

Cormac McCarthy

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

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Inspirational

Cormac McCarthy

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

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Truth

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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

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Life

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Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.You forget some things, dont you?Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

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Life

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

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Life

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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

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Life

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I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.