Cormac McCarthy: Frasi in inglese

Cormac McCarthy è scrittore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.”

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“What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?”

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Cormac McCarthy libro Non è un paese per vecchi

Origine: No Country for Old Men

“When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro La strada

Variante: When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
Origine: The Road

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

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Cormac McCarthy libro Oltre il confine

The Crossing (1994)

“What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro Cavalli selvaggi

Origine: All the Pretty Horses

“…. A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They’re always more trouble than what they’re worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro Cavalli selvaggi

Origine: 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.”

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Blood Meridian (1985)
Origine: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

“Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro Suttree

Origine: Suttree

“The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro La strada

Origine: The Road

“Each the others world entire.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro La strada

Origine: The Road

“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro Città della pianura

Origine: Cities of the Plain

“This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro La strada

Origine: The Road

“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.

[, New York Times, April 19, 1992]”

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“Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.”

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Origine: 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.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro Cavalli selvaggi

Origine: All the Pretty Horses

“Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro Suttree

Origine: Suttree

“I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.”

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Cormac McCarthy Sunset Limited

Origine: The Sunset Limited

“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro Suttree

page 153
Origine: Suttree (1979)

“Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge”

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Origine: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“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 is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.”

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Cormac McCarthy libro Suttree

page 130
Origine: Suttree (1979)
Contesto: 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.