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“If there was a heaven, was it not founded upon the writhing bodies of the damned?”

Book:The Passenger

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The Passenger

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Cormac McCarthy

American novelist known for his profound literary style and rich imagination. His notable works include 'The Border Trilogy' and 'No Country for Old Men'. more

“Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in that maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life”

Cormac Mccarthy Cities Of The Plain

Book:Cities of the Plain

Source: Cities of the Plain

“Cormac McCarthy has to be accounted as a secret master, and the rightful heir (but oh how one hates to invoke yet another Great American Writer in discussing McCarthy, who at times has seemed ot be in danger of disappearing in a heavy snowfall of comparisons to Melville, Faulkner, O'Conner, Hemingway) to the American Gothic tradition of Poe and Lovecraft, dark god of Providence, Rhode Island, where McCarthy was born.”

American Literature Cormac Mccarthy

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“In the mountains they saw deer in the headlights and in the headlights the deer were pale as ghosts and as soundless. They turned their red eyes toward this unreckoned sun and sidled and grouped and leapt the bar ditch by ones and twos. A small doe lost her footing on the macadam and scrabbled wildly and sank onto her hindquarters and rose again and vanished with the others into the chaparral beyond the roadside.”

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Book:Cities of the Plain

Source: Cities of the Plain

“Want to make waves in the business world? Then you gotta be bold, take risks, and always be ready to pivot.”

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Book:Career's Quest: Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession: Networking and Building Professional Relationships

Source: Career's Quest: Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession: Networking and Building Professional Relationships

“John Grady, de pie ante la ventana del café vacío, observando las actividades de la plaza, dijo que era bueno que Dios ocultase las verdades de la vida a los jóvenes cuando empezaban pues de otro modo no tendrían ánimos para empezar.”

Religion Existencialismo Juventud Cormac Mccarthy

Book:All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“Imaginó el dolor del mundo como un parásito informe buscando el calor de las almas humanas donde incubar y creyó saber qué le hacía a uno vulnerable a sus visitas. Lo que no sabía era que no tenía mente y por tanto no podía conocer los límites de aquellas almas y temió que no existieran límites.”

Existencialismo Juventud Cormac Mccarthy Descubrimiento

Book:All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“But those words liveoak, pine, the somehow onomatopoeic splendor [sic] of magnolia, still flower greenly in the mind before McCarthy crushes them, and that leaf, which if ash must weigh very little, still lies heavy against the father's hand.”

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Book:The Road

Source: The Road

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