Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men (2005)

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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

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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.

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How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.

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You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn't. And some part of me has never quit wishing I could go back. And I can't. I didn't know you could steal your own life. And I didn't know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I done the best with it I knew how but it still wasn't mine. It never has been.

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For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

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It's not about knowing where you are. It's about thinking you got there without taking anything with you. Your notions about starting over. Or anybody's. You don't start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

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He knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

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My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

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Ever step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

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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.

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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 weren't. 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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The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities. In their minds. They pretend to themselves that they are in control of events where perhaps they are not. And it is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.

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She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

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