Cormac McCarthy idézet (270 idézet, oldal 7)

The New York Times, April 19, 1992, "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction" http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/mccarthy-venom.html by Richard B. Woodward

“I cant back up and start over. But I dont see the point in slobberin over it. And I cant see where it would make me feel better to be able to point a finger at somebody else.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“It had already occurred to him that he would probably never be safe again in his life and he wondered if that was something that you got used to. And if you did?”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv Cities of the Plain

Cities of the Plain (1998)

“It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv Child of God

Forrás: Child of God (1973), p.71

“Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv Blood Meridian

Forrás: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter III

“White: You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.”

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Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

The Sunset Limited (2006)

“This is a terrible place to die in.
Where’s a good one?”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“How many is there, John?.
Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“When he looked back at the primadonna she was watching them through the spyglasses. As if she might better assess them in that way where they set forth upon the shadowbanded road, the coming twilight. Inhabiting only that ocular ground in which the country appeared out of nothing and vanished again into nothing, tree and rock and the darkening mountains beyond, all of it contained and itself containing only what was needed and nothing more.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“The hour that followed was a long hour.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“…he shook his head at the wonderful invention of folly in its guises and forms.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv Child of God

Forrás: Child of God (1973), p.149

“The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Black: Belief aint like unbelief. If you a believer then you got to come finally to a well of belief itself and then you dont have to look no further. There aint no further. But the unbeliever has got a problem. He has set out to unravel the world, but everthing he can point to that aint true leaves two new things layin there. If God walked the earth when he got done makin it then when you get up in the mornin' you get to put your feet on a real floor and you dont have to worry about where it come from. But if he didnt then you got to come up with a whole other description of what you even mean by real. And you got to judge everything by that same light. If light is is. Includin yourself. One question fits all.”

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Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

The Sunset Limited (2006)

“They rode on. They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For although each man among them was discrete unto himself, conjoined they made a thing that had not been before and in that communal soul were wastes hardly reckonable more than those whited regions on old maps where monsters do live and where there is nothing other of the known world save conjectural winds.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv Blood Meridian

Forrás: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter XII

“Yes, he said. I busted him and he busted me. That's fair, ain't it?The boy was still silent, calmly incredulous.No, Sylder went on, I ain't forgettin about jail. You think because he arrested me that throws it off again I reckon? I don't. It's his job. It's what he gets paid for. To arrest people that break the law. And I didn't jest break the law, I made a livin at it.”

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Cormac McCarthy könyv The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper (1965)

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