Mary, a tall, lithe girl, of a most jetty black, was listless and apparently indifferent. Like many of the class, she scarcely knew there was such a word as freedom. Brought up in the ignorance of a brute, she possessed but little more than
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“Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
“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
“Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.”
― No Country for Old Men
― No Country for Old Men
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