But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?
("No Country for Old Men")
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There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.
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When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
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