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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 β June 13, 2023) was an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter. He wrote twelve novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, modernist, and post-apocalyptic fiction genres.
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βSchopenhauer says somewhere that if the entire universe should vanish the only thing left would be music.β
βOur waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.β
βThose who choose a love that can never be fulfilled will be hounded by a rage that can never be extinguished.β
βIf mathematical objects exist independently of human thought what else are they independent of? The universe, I suppose.β
βYour brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.β
βWhen Wittgenstein convinced Russell that all math is a tautology, Russell gave up on math.
βIs it true?
βRussell said so.β
βIs it true?
βRussell said so.β
βThe road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.β
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Cormac McCarthy on Ruins
βAll progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.β
Cormac McCarthy on The Second Apocalypse
βAll progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage. So. Here are the dead fathers.β
Cormac McCarthy on Anathema
β...those exiles who divorced of corporeality and enjoined ingress of heaven or hell wander forever the middle warrens spoorless increate and anathema.β
Cormac McCarthy on Deference
βWhen they went down to the bunkhouse for dinner the vaqueros seemed to treat them with a certain deference but whether it was the deference accorded the accomplished or that accorded to mental defectives they were unsure.β
Cormac McCarthy on Cannibalism in literature
βThey'd taken everything with them except whatever black thing was skewered over the coals. He was standing there checking the perimeter when the boy turned and buried his face against him. He looked quickly to see what had happened. What is it? he said. What is it? The boy shook his head. Oh Papa, he said. He turned and looked again. What the boy had seen was a charred human infant headless and gutted and blackening on the spit. He bent and picked the boy up and started for the road with him, holding him close. I'm sorry, he whispered. I'm sorry.β
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βCormac McCarthyβs Blood Meridian is without question the book that made me want to try to be a fiction writer as an actual serious undertaking.β
About Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 β June 13, 2023) was an American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter. He wrote twelve novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, modernist, and post-apocalyptic fiction genres.