Cormac McCarthy: Citations en anglais

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“The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre Le Grand Passage

The Crossing (1994)

“And she waited again at the front door with it open, poised between the maw of the dead and loveless house and the outer dark like a frail thief.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre L'Obscurité du dehors

Outer Dark (1968)

“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said.
The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said, I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre Child of God

Source: Child of God (1973), p.158

“If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre Le Grand Passage

The Crossing (1994)

“Where is your country? he said.
I don't know, said John Grady. I don't know where it is. I don't know what happens to country.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre De si jolis chevaux

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“I could have been somebody in this world wasn’t for him.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre Méridien de sang

Blood Meridian (1985)

“In that sleep and in sleep to follow the judge did visit. Who would come other? A great shambling mutant, silent and serene. Whatever his antecedents, he was something wholly other than their sum, nor was there system by which to divide him back into his origins for he would not go. Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the shore of a void without terminus or origin and whatever science he might bring to bear upon the dusty primal matter blowing down out of the millennia will discover no trace of any ultimate atavistic egg by which to reckon his commencing.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre Méridien de sang

Blood Meridian (1985)

“The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre Méridien de sang

Blood Meridian (1985)

“My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre Méridien de sang

Blood Meridian (1985)

“He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre De si jolis chevaux

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre Suttree

Source: Suttree (1979), Chapter 1, page 28

“Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre De si jolis chevaux

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“The world has no name, he said. The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them so that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. That they cannot find for us the way again.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre Le Grand Passage

The Crossing (1994)

“Word gets around when the circus comes to town, dont it?”

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Cormac McCarthy livre De si jolis chevaux

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“When they went down to the bunkhouse for dinner the vaqueros seemed to treat them with a certain deference but whether it was the deference accorded the accomplished or that accorded to mental defectives they were unsure.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre De si jolis chevaux

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre Le Grand Passage

The Crossing (1994)

“White: I long for Darkness. I pray for death, real death. And if I thought that in death I would meet the people I knew in life, I don't know what I would do. That would be the ultimate horror, the ultimate nightmare. If I thought I was gonna meet my mother again an' start all of that over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to… that would be the final nightmare. Goddamn Kafka on wheels.”

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Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

The Sunset Limited (2006)

“I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.”

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Cormac McCarthy livre Méridien de sang

Blood Meridian (1985)