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Cormac McCarthy Quotes: He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.
         

He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.


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