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Cormac McCarthy, The Road Quotes: There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
         

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.


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There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
         



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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.



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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

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