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Cormac McCarthy

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Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Total quotes: 5

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Cormac McCarthy

Birthname

Birthday: July 20, 1933

Educated At: University Of Tennessee

Nationality: American, United States Of America

Occupations: Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter, Science Fiction Writer, Writer

Total quotes: 5

“When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end.”

— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (Vintage International)

Tagged: Death, Life, The End

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“See the child.”

— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Tagged: first lines of books

“The laws of probability operate everywhere and that being the case, somewhere in the world there is the luckiest person. I mean if you were to go around the world and make a record of the luck in the lives of all the people on earth, and put them on a chart, you'd have a chart like a bell curve. And there would be the unluckiest person at one end and the luckiest person at the other end.”

— Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy on luck and money

Tagged: Luck, Probability, Weird, Wow

“Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The smell was hideous.

Jesus, he whispered.

Then one by one they turned and blinked in the pitiful light. Help us, they whispered. Please help us.”

— Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Tagged: help, creepy, Horror

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