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"I jumped for it and lit in a snowbank and what I'm goin to tell you you'll think peculiar but it's the god's truth. That was in nineteen and thirty one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I dont think I'll ever see anything as pretty as that train on fire goin up that mountain and around the bend and them flames lightin up the snow and the trees and the night."

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About Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy was an American novelist and playwright known for influential literary fiction. His major works include Blood Meridian, The Road, and No Country for Old Men. He is regarded as one of the most significant American writers of his era.

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