Cormac McCarthy quote: When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older ...

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

~ Cormac McCarthy ~

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When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older...

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