4 Quotes by Cormac McCarthy about violence


  • Author Cormac McCarthy
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    He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

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  • Author Cormac McCarthy
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    This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea.

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  • Author Cormac McCarthy
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    I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they'd have to build a annex on to hell.

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