Cormac McCarthy citáty

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„Zdědili planetu, která se bez ustání otáčí kolem své osy.
Vypůjčený čas a vypůjčený svět a vypůjčené oči, aby se nad tím mohlo plakat.“

„Dostal jsem dopisy od šesti různých lidí. Jeden byl z Austrálie, jeden z Německa a další pro změnu z Anglie, ale všichni psali stejně: „Vaši knihu CESTA jsem vzal do ruky po večeři a skončil až druhý den ve tři čtvrtě na čtyři ráno a pak jsem vstal z postele, šel nahoru, vzbudil děti a prostě jsem seděl na posteli a držel je v náručí.““

„Svět dokáže dost bezohledně určovat hranice mezi snem a skutečností, dokonce i v případech, kdy my to neumíme. -str.200“

„Ti, kdo prodělali nějaké neštěstí, budou vždycky stát trochu stranou, ale právě to jejich neštěstí je pro ně nesmírný dar a síla. -str.197“

„Jak se liší, co nikdy nebude, od toho, co nikdy nebylo? -str.27“

„Podle jeho názoru by bylo neopatrné se domnívat, že mrtví nemohou nijak ovlivňovat svět, protože mají velkou moc a jejich vliv se nejvíc projevuje na těch, kteří to nejméně tuší. Prohlásil, že lidé nechápou, že to, co mrtví opustili, není sám o sobě žádný svět, ale jen obraz světa v lidském srdci. Zdůraznil, že svět nelze opustit, neboť je věčný bez ohledu na to, v jakém stavu se nacházejí věcí v něm obsažené.“

„Odpovědnost za rozhodnutí se nedá svěřit nějaké slepé síle, ale pouze lidskému úsudku, který má k následkům daného rozhodnutí pořád dál. -str.193“

„Když tě něco žere, tak to zbytečně nepřežvykuj. -str. 242“

„Člověk pořád musí přemejšlet vo tom všem, co se může stát. A nebere to konce. -str.79“

„Před každým pádem je zaváhání. -str.16“

„Nikdy nemáme tolik času, kolik si myslíme. -str.164“

„Zapomeneš, co si chceš pamatovat a pamatuješ si, co chceš zapomenout. -str.15“

“Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.”

“When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?”

“I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”

“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”

“Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.”

“Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.”

“This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.”

“If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?”

“Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“…. 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.”

“A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Each the others world entire.”

“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.”

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

“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]”

“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.”

“He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.”

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

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

“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.”

“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”

“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.”