Cormac McCarthy słynne cytaty
Źródło: Rącze Konie (ang. All the Pretty Horses; 1992), tłum. Jędrzej Polak
„Zapominamy to, co chcemy pamiętać, a pamiętamy to, o czym chcielibyśmy zapomnieć.”
Źródło: Droga (ang. The road; 2006), tłum. Robert Sudół
To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi (2005)
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. (ang.)
To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi (2005)
„Na tej planecie jedna rzecz jest pewna, a mianowicie to, że szczęście nie wali drzwiami i oknami.”
To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi (2005)
Cormac McCarthy: Cytaty po angielsku
“The point is there ain't no point.”
Źródło: No Country for Old Men
“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”
Źródło: The Road
“You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.”
Źródło: No Country for Old Men
“Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?”
Źródło: The Road
“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
Źródło: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
Źródło: No Country for Old Men
“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
Źródło: The Road
Źródło: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Źródło: All The Pretty Horses: All The Pretty Horses
“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
Źródło: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Źródło: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter V
Źródło: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”
Źródło: Child of God
Źródło: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Kontekst: 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.
“You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.”
Wariant: You have my whole heart. You always did.
Źródło: The Road
“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-->
Wariant: 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.
Kontekst: 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.