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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

“It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell ain't half full.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Źródło: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter III

“…and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,…”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“… and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, the first fire and the last ever to be.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“You are the oveja negre, no? The black sheep?”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“I dont see you holdin no aces.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“Billy asked him if such men as had stole his eyes were only products of the war but the blind man said that since war itself was their very doing that could hardly be the case.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“The arc of circling bodies is determined by the length of their tether, said the judge. Moons, coins, men. His hands moved as if he were pulling something from one fist in a series of elongations. Watch the coin, Davey, he said.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’ s journeys.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Źródło: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX

“Given charge Ballard would have made things more orderly in the woods and in men's souls.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Child of God

Źródło: Child of God (1973), p.128

“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Źródło: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX, Judge Holden

“Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“What discordant vespers do the tinker's goods chime through the long twilight and over the brindled forest road, him stooped and hounded through the windy recrements of the day like those old exiles who divorced of corporeality and enjoined ingress of heaven or hell wander forever the middle warrens spoorless increate and anathema.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

“The survivors lay quietly in that cratered void and watched the whitehot stars go rifling down the dark. Or slept with their alien hearts beating in the sand like pilgrims exhausted upon the face of the planet Anareta, clutched to a namelessness wheeling in the night.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Źródło: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IV

“Getting hurt changed me, he said. Changed my perspective. I've moved on, in a way. Some things have fallen into place that were not there before. I thought they were, but they werent. The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“You can’t be all Mexican. It’s like being all mongrel.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Now the entire herd had begun to wheel wider and faster along the bluff and the outermost ranks swung centrifugally over the escarpment row on row wailing and squealing and above this the howls and curses of the drovers that now upreared in the moil of flesh they tended and swept with dust had begun to assume satanic looks with their staves and wild eyes as if they were no true swineheards but disciples of darkness got among these charges to herd them to their doom.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

“For the Earth is a globe in a void the truth there's no up nor down to it.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Źródło: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter X

“The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

“It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“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.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“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.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Jackson, pistols drawn, lurched into the street vowing to shoot the ass off Jesus Christ, the longlegged white son of a bitch.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“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.”

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Cormac McCarthy książka Suttree

page 130
Suttree (1979)