Cormac McCarthy słynne cytaty
Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses
Źródło: Rącze Konie (ang. All the Pretty Horses; 1992), tłum. Jędrzej Polak
„Zapominamy to, co chcemy pamiętać, a pamiętamy to, o czym chcielibyśmy zapomnieć.”
Cormac McCarthy książka Droga
Źródło: Droga (ang. The road; 2006), tłum. Robert Sudół
Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi
To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi (2005)
Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi
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.”
Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi
To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi (2005)
Cormac McCarthy: Cytaty po angielsku
Blood Meridian (1985)
Źródło: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Kontekst: The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
“Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.”
Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi
Źródło: No Country for Old Men
“When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?”
Cormac McCarthy książka Droga
Źródło: The Road
“I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”
Cormac McCarthy książka Outer Dark
Źródło: Outer Dark (1968)
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”
Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses
Źródło: All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy książka Cities of the Plain
Źródło: Cities of the Plain (1998)
“This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.”
Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi
Źródło: No Country for Old Men
Blood Meridian (1985)
Źródło: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Kontekst: And the answer, said the judge. If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. He loves games? Let him play for stakes. This you see here, these ruins wondered at by tribes of savages, do you not think that this will be again? Aye. And again. With other people, with other sons.
Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses
Źródło: All the Pretty Horses
“What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?”
Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi
Źródło: No Country for Old Men
“When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
Cormac McCarthy książka Droga
Wariant: When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
Źródło: The Road
“If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”
Cormac McCarthy książka The Crossing
The Crossing (1994)
Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses
Źródło: All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses
Źródło: All the Pretty Horses (1992)
“A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.”
Blood Meridian (1985)
Źródło: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Źródło: All The Pretty Horses: All The Pretty Horses
“He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.”
Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses
Źródło: All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited
Źródło: The Sunset Limited
Cormac McCarthy książka Suttree
page 153
Źródło: Suttree (1979)
Źródło: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy książka Suttree
page 130
Źródło: Suttree (1979)
Kontekst: Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as in this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.