“My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.”

—  Cormac McCarthy, book Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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