Cormac McCarthy

United States
Born on 20 Jul 1933
Writer

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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

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

All the Pretty Horses
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays