Cormac McCarthy cytaty (276 cytatów, strona 6)

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Cormac McCarthy słynne cytaty

„Pamiętaj, że to, co wpuszczasz do głowy, pozostaje w niej na zawsze.”

The Road

„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

“There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Suttree

Źródło: Suttree (1979), Chapter 1, page 28

“Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“The world has no name, he said. The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them so that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. That they cannot find for us the way again.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“Word gets around when the circus comes to town, dont it?”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“When they went down to the bunkhouse for dinner the vaqueros seemed to treat them with a certain deference but whether it was the deference accorded the accomplished or that accorded to mental defectives they were unsure.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“White: I long for Darkness. I pray for death, real death. And if I thought that in death I would meet the people I knew in life, I don't know what I would do. That would be the ultimate horror, the ultimate nightmare. If I thought I was gonna meet my mother again an' start all of that over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to… that would be the final nightmare. Goddamn Kafka on wheels.”

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Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

The Sunset Limited (2006)

“I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“The old man … said … the notion that men can be understood was probably an illusion.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“He dreamt that night that he rode through the woods on a low ridge. Below him he could see deer in a meadow where the sun fell on the grass. The grass was still wet and the deer stood in it to their elbows. He could feel the spine of the mule rolling under him and he gripped the mule's barrel with his legs. Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed, he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins slender like bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day ever was and he was riding to his death.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Child of God

Źródło: Child of God (1973), p.162

“…hacking at the dying and decapitating those who knelt for mercy.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“He said the wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror men will not speak against it. That men have just enough stomach for small evils and only these will they oppose. He said that true evil has power to sober the smalldoer against his own deeds and in the contemplation of that evil he may even find the path of righteousness which has been foreign to his feet and may have no power but to go upon it. Even this man may be appalled at what is revealed to him and seek some order to stand against it. Yet in all of this there are two things which perhaps he will not know. He will not know that while the order which the righteous seek is never righteousness itself but is only order, the disorder of evil is in fact the thing itself. Nor will he know that while the righteous are hampered at every turn by their ignorance of evil to the evil all is plain, light and dark alike. This man of which we speak will seek to impose order and lineage upon things which rightly have none. He will call upon the world itself to testify as to the truth of what are in fact but his desires. In his final incarnation he may seek to indemnify his words with blood for by now he will have discovered that words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Źródło: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX

“Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Źródło: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter XI

“Where is yesterday? … And where is the fiddler and where is the dance?”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Anything can be an instrument, Chigurh said. Small things. Things you wouldnt even notice. They pass from hand to hand. People dont pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that nothing is the same. Well, you say. It's just a coin. For instance. Nothing special there. What could that be an instrument of? You see the problem. To separate the act from the thing. As if the parts of some moment in history might be interchangeable with the parts of some other moment. How could that be? Well, it's just a coin. Yes. That's true. Is it?”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.”

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Cormac McCarthy

The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Cities of the Plain

Cities of the Plain (1998)

“She came from the shower wrapped in a towel and she sat on the bed and took his hand and looked down at him. I cannot do what you ask, she said. I love you. But I cannot. He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“What good do you think it does to waller all over a horse thataway? said Rawlins.
I dont know, said John Grady. I aint a horse.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)