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Cormac McCarthy1933–2023

Cormac McCarthy on life and death

There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed.

Cormac McCarthy

The New York Times, April 19, 1992, “Cormac McCarthy’s Venomous Fiction” by Richard B. Woodward

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