"Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist."

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Tommy Lee Jones

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“I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!”
“There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.”
“Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.”

Source : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 21
“The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes”
“In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.”
“Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.”
“In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.”
“I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.”

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