Cormac McCarthy könyv All the Pretty Horses
Forrás: All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy nagy sikerű amerikai regény- és színdarabíró. McCarthy műveit gyakran hasonlítják William Faulkner-éhez. Harold Bloom amerikai irodalmár Cormac McCarthyt Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo és Philip Roth szerzőkkel együtt a mai Amerika legjobb írójaként emlegeti. Wikipedia

Cormac McCarthy könyv All the Pretty Horses
Forrás: All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy könyv The Road
Forrás: The Road
“The point is there ain't no point.”
Cormac McCarthy könyv No Country for Old Men
Forrás: No Country for Old Men
“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”
Cormac McCarthy könyv The Road
Forrás: The Road
“You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.”
Cormac McCarthy könyv No Country for Old Men
Forrás: No Country for Old Men
“Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?”
Cormac McCarthy könyv The Road
Forrás: The Road
“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
Forrás: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
Cormac McCarthy könyv No Country for Old Men
Forrás: No Country for Old Men
“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
Cormac McCarthy könyv The Road
Forrás: The Road
Forrás: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Forrás: All The Pretty Horses: All The Pretty Horses
“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
Forrás: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy könyv The Road
Forrás: The Road
Cormac McCarthy könyv No Country for Old Men
Forrás: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Forrás: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter V
Forrás: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy könyv No Country for Old Men
Forrás: No Country for Old Men
“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”
Cormac McCarthy könyv Child of God
Forrás: Child of God
Cormac McCarthy könyv No Country for Old Men
Forrás: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Kontextus: I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
Cormac McCarthy könyv No Country for Old Men
Forrás: No Country for Old Men (2005)
“You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.”
Cormac McCarthy könyv The Road
Változat: You have my whole heart. You always did.
Forrás: The Road
Cormac McCarthy könyv No Country for Old Men
Forrás: No Country for Old Men
“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen <!--accessed: November 17, 2009--> <br class="br">Változat: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. <br class="br">Kontextus: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.