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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

“It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell ain't half full.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Fonte: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter III

“…and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,…”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“… and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, the first fire and the last ever to be.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“You are the oveja negre, no? The black sheep?”

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Cormac McCarthy livro All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“I dont see you holdin no aces.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

“Billy asked him if such men as had stole his eyes were only products of the war but the blind man said that since war itself was their very doing that could hardly be the case.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro The Crossing

The Crossing (1994)

“The arc of circling bodies is determined by the length of their tether, said the judge. Moons, coins, men. His hands moved as if he were pulling something from one fist in a series of elongations. Watch the coin, Davey, he said.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’ s journeys.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Fonte: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX

“Given charge Ballard would have made things more orderly in the woods and in men's souls.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Child of God

Fonte: Child of God (1973), p.128

“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Fonte: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX, Judge Holden

“Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“What discordant vespers do the tinker's goods chime through the long twilight and over the brindled forest road, him stooped and hounded through the windy recrements of the day like those old exiles who divorced of corporeality and enjoined ingress of heaven or hell wander forever the middle warrens spoorless increate and anathema.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

“The survivors lay quietly in that cratered void and watched the whitehot stars go rifling down the dark. Or slept with their alien hearts beating in the sand like pilgrims exhausted upon the face of the planet Anareta, clutched to a namelessness wheeling in the night.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Fonte: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IV

“Getting hurt changed me, he said. Changed my perspective. I've moved on, in a way. Some things have fallen into place that were not there before. I thought they were, but they werent. The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“You can’t be all Mexican. It’s like being all mongrel.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Now the entire herd had begun to wheel wider and faster along the bluff and the outermost ranks swung centrifugally over the escarpment row on row wailing and squealing and above this the howls and curses of the drovers that now upreared in the moil of flesh they tended and swept with dust had begun to assume satanic looks with their staves and wild eyes as if they were no true swineheards but disciples of darkness got among these charges to herd them to their doom.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

“For the Earth is a globe in a void the truth there's no up nor down to it.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Fonte: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter X

“The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

“It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“And the answer, said the judge. If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. He loves games? Let him play for stakes. This you see here, these ruins wondered at by tribes of savages, do you not think that this will be again? Aye. And again. With other people, with other sons.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Jackson, pistols drawn, lurched into the street vowing to shoot the ass off Jesus Christ, the longlegged white son of a bitch.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian (1985)

“Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. 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 in this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.”

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Cormac McCarthy livro Suttree

page 130
Suttree (1979)