Cormac McCarthy: Citations en anglais (Page 7)

Cormac McCarthy est écrivain américain. Citations en anglais.
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“If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?”

Cormac McCarthy livre No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.”

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

“I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.”

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

“My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.”

Cormac McCarthy livre De si jolis chevaux

Source: All the Pretty Horses

“What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream”

Cormac McCarthy livre Suttree

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Source: Suttree (1979)
Contexte: Pale manchild were there last agonies? Were you in terror, did you know? Could you feel the claw that claimed you? And who is this fool kneeling over your bones, choked with bitterness? And what could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream.

“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter II
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Contexte: A man’ s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

“All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.”

Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter XI, Judge Holden
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West