No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy
United States
Born on 20 Jul 1933
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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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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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Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it�s made out of. Nothin else.

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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

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