“What family has no mariner in its tree? No fool, no felon. No fisherman.” - Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

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“What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?” - Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

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“My life is ghastly.” Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

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“What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle” - Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
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“He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.” Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

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“Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.” - Cormac McCarthy
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