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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. 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

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
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“The true goal of capitalism is monopoly. That is all-total control of whatever market it is you choose to enter, so that you can do with it what you wish...”
― The Hanging Tree
― The Hanging Tree

“Here’s the thing, Judy. Here’s the thing we have to look at and accept. For you, I was a chapter—a good chapter, maybe, or even your favorite chapter, but still, just a chapter—and for me, you were the book.” “No, no, Willy, what you’re saying about me—that’s just not true,” she said, but she didn’t say what she thought was the truer, darker truth: that, to use his metaphor, he had been most of the book, but she had been too careless or self-absorbed or oblivious to know it, and it was too late to change the ending.”
― To Be Sung Underwater
― To Be Sung Underwater

“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

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