1984
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“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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― No Country for Old Men
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― No Country for Old Men
“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.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“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. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
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