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Child Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had…
- He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
- Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again…
- This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
- And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another…
- What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream
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