Frases de Cormac McCarthy

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“Em que é que o que nunca existirá difere do que nunca existiu?”

“Nem todas as palavras prestes a morrer são portadoras da verdade e a bênção que proporcionam não é menos genuína por se ver privada dos seus fundamentos.”

“As pessoas estavam sempre a preparar-se para o futuro. Eu não acreditava nisso. O futuro não se estava a preparar para elas. O futuro nem sabia que elas existiam.”

“E se eu te dissesse que ele é um deus?
O velho abanou a cabeça. Já não acredito em nada disso. Deixei de acreditar há anos. Onde os homens não conseguem viver, os deuses não têm melhor sorte. Vais ver. É melhor estar sozinho.”

“A vida é breve, e passar o tempo todo fazendo o que os outros querem que você faça não é o modo de vivê-la.”

“Como num daqueles jogos que se jogam nas festas. Diz a palavra ao ouvido do seguinte. Por isso, sejamos parcimoniosos. Aquilo que alteramos nas recordações também em a sua realidade, conhecida ou não.”

“O capitão se curvou para trás e cruzou os braços. Estamos lidando aqui é com uma raça de degenerados, disse. Uma raça de mestiços, não muito melhor que negros. E talvez nem isso. Não existe governo no México. Diabo, não existe Deus no México. Nunca vai existir. A gente está lidando com um povo absolutamente incapaz de se governar sozinho. E sabe o que acontece com povos que não conseguem se governar sozinhos? Isso mesmo. Outros vêm e governam por eles.”

“Encheu o copo. Beba, disse. O mundo continua a girar. Temos dança todas as noites e esta não é exceção. O caminho direto e o tortuoso são um só e agora que você está aqui de valem que os anos decorridos desde a última ocasião em que nos encontramos? As lembranças do homem são incertas e o passado que ocorreu difere pouco do passado que não.”

“Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”

“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”

“The point is there ain't no point.”

“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”

“Where men can't live gods fare no better.”

“I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.”

“You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.”

“Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?”

“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”

“What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?
Yes. So I could be with you.
Okay.”

“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”

“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

“He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.”

“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”

“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.”

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”

“Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?”

“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned”

“When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.”

“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.”

“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.
Nobody would know it.
It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.”

“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”

“You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.”

“I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.”

“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”

“He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.”