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When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

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Running, Men, Years
Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

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Flames, Martyr, Candidates
Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.941, Pan Macmillan

There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.

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Rain, Moon, Gone
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

Teaching writing is a hustle.

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Teaching, Writing, Hustle

In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

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Dream, Democracy, Pilgrim
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said

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Men, Drink, Said
Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.

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Done, Reason, Said
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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