He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whet…

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He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2013). The Border Trilogy, p.637, Pan Macmillan
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He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2013). The Border Trilogy, p.637, Pan Macmillan

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