Carolina QuotesI'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Cormac McCarthy Carolinian
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The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" by John Jurgensen
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- 2009
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