Cormac McCarthy: Frasi in inglese (pagina 6)
Cormac McCarthy è scrittore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.“What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?”
Origine: No Country for Old Men
“When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
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?”
The Crossing (1994)
“A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.”
Blood Meridian (1985)
Origine: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.”
Origine: The Road
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.”
Origine: All the Pretty Horses
Origine: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
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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.