If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
("No Country for Old Men")
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They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. What if it doesn't fire? Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock? Is there such a being within you of which you know nothing? Can there be? Hold him in your arms. Just so. The soul is quick. Pull him toward you. Kiss him. Quickly.
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It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
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There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
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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?
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