Carolina Quotes—Neither does anybody else. Sometimes you get a clear sense that doing math is largely just feeding data into the substation and waiting to see what comes out. I’m not even sure that it’s all that wise to commit things to memory.
Cormac McCarthy Carolinian
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- Stella Maris (2022)
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- 2022
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“—Neither does anybody else. Sometimes you get a clear sense …” Cormac McCarthy. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-E7FEB22EAD. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/e7feb22ead
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