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Cormac McCarthy, właściwie Charles McCarthy – amerykański pisarz, scenarzysta i dramaturg.

Przez krytyka literackiego Harolda Blooma uznany za jednego z czterech najważniejszych amerykańskich współczesnych powieściopisarzy, obok Thomasa Pynchona, Dona DeLillo i Philipa Rotha. Przez zajmujących się jego twórczością porównywany bywa do Williama Faulknera i czasem do Hermana Melville’a. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Lipiec 1933   •   Natępne imiona کورمک مک‌کارتی
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Cormac McCarthy słynne cytaty

„Zanim wzeszło słońce, zrozumiałam, że to, czego staram się dociec, jest prawdą znaną mi od dawna. Że odwaga jest wyrazem wytrwałości. Że tchórz zawsze najpierw zdradza siebie. A gdy to uczyni kolejne zdrady przychodzą mu z łatwością.”

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

„Nie chodzi o to, gdzie się jest, ale o to, że chcesz tam dotrzeć, nie zabierając nic ze sobą. Tak według ciebie wygląda zaczynanie życia od początku. Wszyscy tak to sobie wyobrażają. Ale nie zaczniesz od początku. I o to właśnie chodzi. Wszystko, co robisz, ciągnie się za tobą. Tego się nie pozbędziesz. W żaden sposób.”

Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi (2005)

„Myślisz, że jak się budzisz rano, dzień wczorajszy się nie liczy. Tylko że ten dzień jest właśnie wszystkim, co się liczy. No bo co? Życie składa się z dni. Z niczego innego. Możesz myśleć, że uciekniesz, zmienisz nazwisko i nie wiadomo co jeszcze. Że zaczniesz od początku. A potem pewnego ranka się obudzisz i patrząc w sufit, będziesz się zastanawiała, kto tam leży.”

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

“The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Droga

Źródło: The Road

“If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

Źródło: No Country for Old Men

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

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

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

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

“My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.”

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

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

Źródło: All the Pretty Horses

“The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad?

What do you think?

Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here.

Yeah.

You don't think that's so great.

It's okay.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Droga

Źródło: The Road

“Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Droga

Źródło: The Road

“It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight…”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

Źródło: No Country for Old Men

“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”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Suttree

page 154
Źródło: Suttree (1979)
Kontekst: 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.”

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Cormac McCarthy

Źródło: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter II
Źródło: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Kontekst: 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.

“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?

No.

It's never like what you expected.

Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”

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Cormac McCarthy książka The Crossing

Źródło: The Crossing

“Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

Źródło: All the Pretty Horses

“Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.”

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“And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Droga

Źródło: The Road

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

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

“There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Suttree

Źródło: Suttree

“I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.
She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

“I never knowed there was such a place as this.
I guess there’s probably every kind of place you can think of.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said.
The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said, I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Child of God

Źródło: Child of God (1973), p.158

“If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“Where is your country? he said.
I don't know, said John Grady. I don't know where it is. I don't know what happens to country.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“I could have been somebody in this world wasn’t for him.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“In that sleep and in sleep to follow the judge did visit. Who would come other? A great shambling mutant, silent and serene. Whatever his antecedents, he was something wholly other than their sum, nor was there system by which to divide him back into his origins for he would not go. Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the shore of a void without terminus or origin and whatever science he might bring to bear upon the dusty primal matter blowing down out of the millennia will discover no trace of any ultimate atavistic egg by which to reckon his commencing.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)