“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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