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Cormac McCarthy é um escritor norte-americano.Na juventude serviu na Força Aérea dos Estados Unidos durante quatro anos, e estudou Artes na Universidade do Tennessee. É vencedor do National Book Award, do National Book Critics Circle Award e do Prémio Pulitzer de Ficção 2007.

Em 40 anos de carreira literária, produziu nove romances, entre eles Todos os Belos Cavalos, A Travessia e Cidade das Planícies, que o autor batizou de Trilogia da Fronteira. Onde os Velhos Não Têm Vez, lançado nos Estados Unidos em 2005, foi adaptado para o cinema pelos irmãos Joel e Ethan Coen, em seu filme No Country for Old Men, lançado em 2007 e vencedor do prêmio Oscar de melhor filme, em 2008. Avesso a entrevistas, Cormac McCarthy gosta de manter sua privacidade.

O escritor tem sido comparado nos últimos anos a outros grandes nomes do romance contemporâneo norte-americano, como Don Delillo, Philip Roth ou Thomas Pynchon.

No Brasil, McCarthy já foi publicado pela Editora Objetiva, pelo selo Alfaguara e pela Cia. das Letras, com os títulos Onde os Velhos Não Tem Vez, A Estrada, Meridiano de Sangue, Todos os Belos Cavalos, A Travessia e Cidade das Planícies. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Julho 1933  •  Outros nomes کورمک مک‌کارتی
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Cormac McCarthy Frases famosas

“Esquecemo-nos de algumas coisas, não é?
Sim. Esquecemo-nos do que queríamos recordar e recordamos o que queríamos esquecer.”

Cormac McCarthy livro A Estrada

The Road

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

Cormac McCarthy livro A Estrada

The Road

“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.”

Cormac McCarthy livro A Estrada

The Road

“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.”

Cormac McCarthy livro A Estrada

The Road

“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.”

Cormac McCarthy livro A Estrada

The Road

“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.”

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“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.”

Cormac McCarthy livro A Estrada

The Road

“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.”

Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

“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.”

Cormac McCarthy livro Meridiano de sangue

Cormac McCarthy: Frases em inglês

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

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Cormac McCarthy livro 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 livro Suttree

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

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

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Cormac McCarthy livro All the Pretty Horses

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 livro The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

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

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Cormac McCarthy livro All the Pretty Horses

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 livro All the Pretty Horses

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 livro The Crossing

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 livro 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 livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“The old man … said … the notion that men can be understood was probably an illusion.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“He dreamt that night that he rode through the woods on a low ridge. Below him he could see deer in a meadow where the sun fell on the grass. The grass was still wet and the deer stood in it to their elbows. He could feel the spine of the mule rolling under him and he gripped the mule's barrel with his legs. Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed, he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins slender like bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day ever was and he was riding to his death.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Child of God

Fonte: Child of God (1973), p.162

“…hacking at the dying and decapitating those who knelt for mercy.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“He said the wicked know that if the ill they do be of sufficient horror men will not speak against it. That men have just enough stomach for small evils and only these will they oppose. He said that true evil has power to sober the smalldoer against his own deeds and in the contemplation of that evil he may even find the path of righteousness which has been foreign to his feet and may have no power but to go upon it. Even this man may be appalled at what is revealed to him and seek some order to stand against it. Yet in all of this there are two things which perhaps he will not know. He will not know that while the order which the righteous seek is never righteousness itself but is only order, the disorder of evil is in fact the thing itself. Nor will he know that while the righteous are hampered at every turn by their ignorance of evil to the evil all is plain, light and dark alike. This man of which we speak will seek to impose order and lineage upon things which rightly have none. He will call upon the world itself to testify as to the truth of what are in fact but his desires. In his final incarnation he may seek to indemnify his words with blood for by now he will have discovered that words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Fonte: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX

“Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Fonte: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter XI

“Where is yesterday? … And where is the fiddler and where is the dance?”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Anything can be an instrument, Chigurh said. Small things. Things you wouldnt even notice. They pass from hand to hand. People dont pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that nothing is the same. Well, you say. It's just a coin. For instance. Nothing special there. What could that be an instrument of? You see the problem. To separate the act from the thing. As if the parts of some moment in history might be interchangeable with the parts of some other moment. How could that be? Well, it's just a coin. Yes. That's true. Is it?”

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Cormac McCarthy livro No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.”

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The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen

“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Cities of the Plain

Cities of the Plain (1998)

“She came from the shower wrapped in a towel and she sat on the bed and took his hand and looked down at him. I cannot do what you ask, she said. I love you. But I cannot. He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“What good do you think it does to waller all over a horse thataway? said Rawlins.
I dont know, said John Grady. I aint a horse.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“The judge smiled. It is not necessary, he said, that the principals here be in possession of the facts concerning their case, for their acts will ultimately accommodate history with or without their understanding. But it is consistent with notions of right principle that these facts—to the extent that they can be readily made to do so—should find a repository in the witness of some third party. Sergeant Aguilar is just such a party and any slight to his office is but a secondary consideration when compared to divergences in that larger protocol enacted by the formal agenda of an absolute destiny. Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Fonte: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter VII

“You do not know what things you set in motion, he said. No man can know. No prophet foresee. The consequences of an act are often quite different from what one would guess. You must be sure that the intention in your heart is large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all disappointments. Do you see? Not everything has such value.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“In the night as he slept Boyd came to him and squatted by the deep embers of the fire as he'd done times by the hundreds and smiled his soft smile that was not quite cynical and he took off his hat and held it before him and looked down into it. In the dream he knew that Boyd was dead and that the subject of his being so must be approached with a certain caution for that which was circumspect in life must be doubly so in death and he'd no way to know what word or gesture might subtract him back again into that nothingness out of which he'd come. When finally he did ask him what it was like to be dead Boyd only smiled and looked away and would not answer. They spoke of other things and he tried not to wake from the dream but the ghost dimmed and faded and he woke and lay looking up at the stars through the bramblework of the treelimbs and he tried to think of what that place could be where Boyd was but Boyd was dead and wasted in his bones wrapped in the soogan upriver in the trees and he turned his face to the ground and wept.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

The judge
Blood Meridian (1985)

“He said that both views were one view and that while men may meet with death in strange and obscure places which they might well have avoided it was more correct to say that no matter how hidden or crooked the path to their destruction yet they would seek it out. He smiled. He spoke as one who seemed to understand that death was the condition of existence and life but an emanation thereof.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Fonte: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter I