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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
Cormac McCarthy Fotografia
Cormac McCarthy: 276 cytatów0 Polubień

Cormac McCarthy słynne cytaty

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

Cormac McCarthy książka Droga

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

“Drink up, he said. Drink up. This night thy soul may be required of thee.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

The judge
Blood Meridian (1985)

“The priest looked at him. Do I know you? he said.
Suttree placed one hand on the pew in front of him. An old woman was going along the altar rail with a dusting rag. He struggled to his feet. No, he said. You dont know me.
The priest stepped back, inspecting is clothes, his fishstained shoes.
I just fell asleep a minute. I was resting.
The priest gave a little smile, lightly touched with censure, remonstrance gentled. God's house is not exactly the place to take a nap, he said.
It's not God's house.
I beg your pardon?
It's not God's house.
Oh?
Suttree waved his hand vaguely and stepped past the priest and went down the aisle. The priest watched him. He smiled sadly, but a smile for that.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Suttree

page 255
Suttree (1979)

“We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“People see what they want to see.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“He said that while one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor. He said that it was a mistake to expect too much of justice in this world. He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation?”

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Cormac McCarthy książka The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“…death seemed the most prevalent feature of the landscape.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“I can man anything that eats. Get me a piece of jerky. —John Joel Glanton.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.”

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Cormac McCarthy

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 książka 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 książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

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 książka 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 książka Child of God

Źródło: 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 książka Blood Meridian

Źródło: 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 książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

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

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Cormac McCarthy książka 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 książka 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 książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

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 książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“The hour that followed was a long hour.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka 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 książka 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 książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

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 książka Child of God

Źródło: 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 książka 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 książka Blood Meridian

Źródło: 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 książka The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper (1965)