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Posted: 3/8/2013 5:50:42 PM EDT

Posted: 3/8/2013 5:54:10 PM EDT

[#1]

Hard to believe

Posted: 3/8/2013 5:58:07 PM EDT

[#2]

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:00:10 PM EDT

[#3]

My grandfather was a lawman, father too

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:05:25 PM EDT

[#4]

There was this boy I sent to Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony.

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:11:46 PM EDT

[#5]

The crime you see now, you can't hardly take it's measure..."

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:13:38 PM EDT

[#6]

"u mind riding bitch"

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:18:04 PM EDT

[#7]

"Call it, friendo."

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:22:05 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
The crime you see now, you can't hardly take it's measure..."

It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job.

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:22:40 PM EDT

[#9]

“ I always liked to hear about the old-timers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can’t help but compare yourself against the old-timers. Can’t help but wonder how they’d have operated these times ".

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:23:03 PM EDT

[#10]

I cant swear to every detail, but its certainly true it is a story.

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:24:45 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The crime you see now, you can't hardly take it's measure..."

It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job.

but I don't want to push my chips forward & go out and meet something I don't understand....

A man would have to put his soul at a hazzard....he'd have to say "ok.....I'll be part of this world"....

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:24:45 PM EDT

[#12]

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:26:32 PM EDT

[#13]

Where'd you get that gun?

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:28:03 PM EDT

[#14]

At the gettin place.

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:28:08 PM EDT

[#15]

Whatcha got ain't nothin' new.

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:29:45 PM EDT

[#16]

Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:33:20 PM EDT

[#17]

Whatcha got ain't nothin new. This country's hard on people, you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity.

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:36:48 PM EDT

[#18]

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:38:40 PM EDT

[#19]

Here a year or two back me and Loretta went to a conference in Corpus Christi and I got set next to this woman, she was the wife of somebody or other. And she kept talkin about the right wing this and the right wing that. I ain't even sure what she meant by it. The people I know are mostly just common people. Common as dirt, as the sayin goes. I told her that and she looked at me funny. She thought I was sayin somethin bad about em, but of course that’s a high compliment in my part of the world. She kept on, kept on. Finally told me, said: I don’t like the way this country is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam I don't think you got any worries about the way the country is headed. The way I see it goin I don't have much doubt but what she’ll be able to have an abortion. I’m goin to say that not only will she be able to have an abortion, she’ll be able to have you put to sleep. Which pretty much ended the conversation.

Posted: 3/8/2013 6:40:10 PM EDT

[#20]

"Be on the lookout for a man who has recently drunk milk?!"

Posted: 3/8/2013 7:04:47 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
The crime you see now, you can't hardly take it's measure..."

That is the opposite of the takeaway from the movie.

Posted: 3/8/2013 7:12:11 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The crime you see now, you can't hardly take it's measure..."

That is the opposite of the takeaway from the movie.

It is however in the opening monologue......

Posted: 3/8/2013 7:16:22 PM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The crime you see now, you can't hardly take it's measure..."

That is the opposite of the takeaway from the movie.

It is however in the opening monologue......

And a fine opening monologue it is. But many people think that's what McCarthy wants you to see. The real lesson is from the wheelchair guy towards the end.

Posted: 3/8/2013 7:21:23 PM EDT

[#24]

Aww hell's bells...... even shot the dog...

Posted: 3/8/2013 7:42:06 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The crime you see now, you can't hardly take it's measure..."

That is the opposite of the takeaway from the movie.

It is however in the opening monologue......

And a fine opening monologue it is. But many people think that's what McCarthy wants you to see. The real lesson is from the wheelchair guy towards the end.

What killed the world in The Road?

Posted: 3/8/2013 7:47:09 PM EDT

[#26]

" Yeah, I'm going to bring you something, alright. I decided to make you a special project of mine. You ain't going have to come looking for me at all. "

Posted: 3/8/2013 7:50:25 PM EDT

[#27]

Back in my day a lawman was a lawman

Posted: 3/8/2013 11:45:51 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
What killed the world in The Road?

If I had to guess, I'd say the flawed nature of humankind.

Posted: 3/9/2013 12:13:37 AM EDT

[#29]

The newspapers said it was a crime of passion, but he told me there wasn't no passion involved at all. He said he'd been planning on killing some for about as long as he could remember. Said if we turned him out he'd do it again. Said he he knew he was goin' to Hell. Be there in about 15 minutes. I don't know what to make of that, I truly don't.

Posted: 3/9/2013 12:16:37 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.

"Where do you want me to put it?"

"Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is."

Posted: 3/9/2013 12:18:26 AM EDT

[#31]

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss.

Posted: 3/9/2013 12:33:34 AM EDT

[#32]

I ain't got no aqua.

Posted: 3/9/2013 12:54:46 AM EDT

[#33]

"If i was gonna make a deal why wouldn't i just deal with this...sugar fella?"

Posted: 3/9/2013 1:06:35 AM EDT

[#34]

I'm fixin to do somethen dumber n hell

Posted: 3/9/2013 3:38:21 AM EDT

[#35]

"It ain't all wait'n on you...................that's vanity."

Posted: 3/9/2013 3:42:24 AM EDT

[#36]

Is uh, Carson Wells there?
Not in the sense that you mean.

Posted: 3/9/2013 3:52:02 AM EDT

[#37]

You know I counted the floors of this building from the street?
And?
There's one missing.
We'll look into it

Posted: 3/9/2013 4:11:57 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

" Yeah, I'm going to bring you something, alright. I decided to make you a special project of mine. You ain't going have to come looking for me at all. "

Of course, in true McCarthy style, that was Moss' vanity speaking...

Posted: 3/9/2013 4:32:40 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
The newspapers said it was a crime of passion, but he told me there wasn't no passion involved at all. He said he'd been planning on killing some for about as long as he could remember. Said if we turned him out he'd do it again. Said he he knew he was goin' to Hell. Be there in about 15 minutes. I don't know what to make of that, I truly don't.

Posted: 3/9/2013 5:27:51 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Quoted:

The crime you see now, you can't hardly take it's measure..."

That is the opposite of the takeaway from the movie.

It is however in the opening monologue......

And a fine opening monologue it is. But many people think that's what McCarthy wants you to see. The real lesson is from the wheelchair guy towards the end.

It's the story of how Uncle Mac got shot down on his front step. It was even in the discussion of how Ellis ended up in the wheelchair. It's Ellis' statement that I quoted, "Whatcha got ain't nothin new. This country's hard on people, you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity." The land has always been that way. Bell had just done his best to ignore it.

Posted: 3/9/2013 5:30:00 AM EDT

[#41]

I've been Sheriff since I was 5 with these

Posted: 3/9/2013 5:42:35 AM EDT

[#42]

Call it.

Posted: 3/9/2013 6:10:55 AM EDT

[#43]

"That's what they all say."

Posted: 3/9/2013 6:13:48 AM EDT

[#44]

"You don't see many Mexicans in a suit."

Posted: 3/9/2013 6:16:48 AM EDT

[#45]

"Can you help me get these chickens out of the truck?"

Posted: 3/9/2013 7:25:37 AM EDT

[#46]

"Compared to what? The bubonic plague?"

Posted: 3/9/2013 7:36:57 AM EDT

[#47]

He's a psychopathic killer but so what? Plenty of them around.

Posted: 3/9/2013 7:41:56 AM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
I ain't got no aqua.

"agua" mex for "water." pretty damn sure he said "agua."

Posted: 3/9/2013 7:50:12 AM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:
“ I always liked to hear about the old-timers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can’t help but compare yourself against the old-timers. Can’t help but wonder how they’d have operated these times ".

This statement summed-up the entire book.

I couldn't believe that the movie left out all of Sheriff Bell's WWII encounter.

Posted: 3/9/2013 7:51:27 AM EDT

[#50]

btw... fans of Lonesome Dove might be interested to know who played Ellis (wheelchair guy)

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