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  • War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

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    Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.262, Pan Macmillan

  • War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

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    Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

  • Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge

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    Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.349, Pan Macmillan

  • Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

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    Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.264, Pan Macmillan

  • In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

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    Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.331, Pan Macmillan

  • This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.

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    Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

  • It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

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    Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.262, Pan Macmillan

  • This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.

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    Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.335, Vintage

  • He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo

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    Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.114, Pan Macmillan
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Cormac McCarthy

  • Born: July 20, 1933
  • Occupation: Novelist
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