Cormac McCarthy Berühmte Zitate
„Was ist das höchste, dass du je beim Münze-werfen verloren hast?“
Cormac McCarthy buch Kein Land für alte Männer
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy buch Die Straße
The Road
Cormac McCarthy: Zitate auf Englisch
Cormac McCarthy buch All the Pretty Horses
Quelle: All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy buch Die Straße
Quelle: The Road
“The point is there ain't no point.”
Cormac McCarthy buch Kein Land für alte Männer
Quelle: No Country for Old Men
“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”
Cormac McCarthy buch Die Straße
Quelle: The Road
“You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.”
Cormac McCarthy buch Kein Land für alte Männer
Quelle: No Country for Old Men
“Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?”
Cormac McCarthy buch Die Straße
Quelle: The Road
“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
Quelle: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
Cormac McCarthy buch Kein Land für alte Männer
Quelle: No Country for Old Men
“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
Cormac McCarthy buch Die Straße
Quelle: The Road
Quelle: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Quelle: All The Pretty Horses: All The Pretty Horses
“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
Quelle: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy buch Die Straße
Quelle: The Road
Cormac McCarthy buch Kein Land für alte Männer
Quelle: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Quelle: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter V
Quelle: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy buch Kein Land für alte Männer
Quelle: No Country for Old Men
“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”
Cormac McCarthy buch Child of God
Quelle: Child of God
Cormac McCarthy buch Kein Land für alte Männer
Quelle: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Kontext: I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
Cormac McCarthy buch Die Straße
Quelle: The Road
Cormac McCarthy buch Kein Land für alte Männer
Quelle: No Country for Old Men (2005)
“You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.”
Cormac McCarthy buch Die Straße
Variante: You have my whole heart. You always did.
Quelle: The Road
Cormac McCarthy buch Kein Land für alte Männer
Quelle: No Country for Old Men
“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen <!--accessed: November 17, 2009--> <br class="br">Variante: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. <br class="br">Kontext: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
