No Country for Old Men
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It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.
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What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
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You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
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I think sometimes people would rather have a bad answer about things than no answer at all.
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People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
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Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money did not change.
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Things happen to you, they happen. They don't ask first. They don't require your permission.
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All the time you spend trying to get back what hass been took from you there is more going out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
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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.
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People complain about the bad things that happen to them that they don't deserve, but they seldom mention the good. About what they have done to deserve them things.
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No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
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