"Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness."

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Source: Fictional character: White. The Sunset Limited, www.imdb.com. 2011.

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Cormac McCarthy

Novelist, Screenwriter

Cormac McCarthy is an acclaimed American novelist known for his stark prose and exploration of existential themes in works like 'The Road.'

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