Frasi di Robert McCammon

Robert R. McCammon è un romanziere statunitense.

Ha debuttato nel 1978 col romanzo Baal, iniziando una prolifica carriera di romanziere che lo ha portato a scrivere un totale di tredici romanzi prima di prendersi un lungo periodo di pausa dal lavoro alla fine del 1992. Recentemente è tornato a pubblicare: nel 2002 si è riaffacciato sul mercato con Speaks the Nightbird e nel 2007 è arrivato l'ultimo The Queen of Bedlam.

In Italia McCammon è stato recentemente riscoperto dalla Gargoyle Books, la casa editrice romana specializzata in narrativa horror, che ha pubblicato nel 2005 Hanno sete. Il bacio oscuro , nel 2006 L'ora del lupo. Gli artigli della notte , nel 2007 La via oscura , nel 2009 La maledizione della casa degli Usher , ispirato al racconto Il crollo di Casa Usher di Edgar Allan Poe, e nel 2010 Mary Terror . Wikipedia

✵ 17. Luglio 1952

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Robert McCammon: Frasi in inglese

“You never know how things are gonna turn out, though, and that's the truth. You aim for one place, sure as an arrow, but before you hit the mark, the wind gets you. I don't believe I ever met one person who became what they wanted to be when they were your age.”

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Robert McCammon libro Boy's Life

Cory's dad to Cory; Book One, Ch. 1.
Boy's Life (1991)

“The truth of life is that every year we get farther away from the essence that is born within us. We get shouldered with burdens, some of them good, some of them not so good. Things happen to us. Loved ones die. People get in wrecks and get crippled. People lose their way, for one reason or another. It's not hard to do, in this world of crazy mazes. Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you "sir."”

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It just happens.
Introduction.
Boy's Life (1991)

“See this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God's sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they'd allowed to wither in themselves.”

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Introduction.
Boy's Life (1991)

“It seemed to me at an early age that all human communication – whether it’s TV, movies, or books – begins with somebody wanting to tell a story. That need to tell, to plug into a universal socket, is probably one of our grandest desires. And the need to hear stories, to live lives other than our own for even the briefest moment, is the key to the magic that was born in our bones.”

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Robert McCammon libro Boy's Life

Book One, Ch. 3.
Boy's Life (1991)

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