Quote by: Cormac McCarthy

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.


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Author Bio


  • NameCormac McCarthy
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
  • AliasesCharles McCarthy
  • BornJuly 20, 1933
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Playwright; Screenwriter
  • WorksSuttree; Blood Meridian; All The Pretty Horses; The Border Trilogy; No Country For Old Men; The Road
  • AwardsPEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction; National Book Award; Pulitzer Prize For Fiction; Maltese Falcon Award; Guggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Lillian Smith Book Award