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Cormac McCarthy
“The next great war wont arrive until everyone who remembers the last one is dead.”
Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris
tags: war

David  Mitchell
“Victory has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan.”
David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

Cormac McCarthy
“The next great war wont arrive until everyone who remembers the last one is dead. You think that nuclear war is inevitable. I agree with Plato that only the dead have seen an end to war. And people dont fight with rocks when they have guns. Etcetera and so on.”
Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

Cormac McCarthy
“It has to do with intelligence. Yes. And again, when you’re talking about intelligence you’re talking about number. A claim that the mathless are quick to frown upon. It’s about calculation and the nature of calculation. Verbal intelligence will only take you so far. There is a wall there, and if you dont understand numbers you wont even see the wall. People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you. They will be cordial—or not—depending on their nature. Of course one might also add that intelligence is a basic component of evil. The more stupid you are the less capable you are of doing harm. Except perhaps in a clumsy and inadvertent manner. The word cretin comes from the French chrétien. Supposedly if you could think of nothing good to say about a dullard you would say that he was a good Christian. Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.”
Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

“The fact is, people who are metabolically healthy do not get hungry unless they’ve been extremely active, skipped a couple of meals, or have been undereating for a few days in a row. When they do get hungry, the next meal they eat will taste really, really good. As Miguel de Cervantes observed long ago, “Hunger is the best sauce in the world.”
Catherine Shanahan, The Fatburn Fix: Boost Energy, End Hunger, and Lose Weight by Using Body Fat for Fuel

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