“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.”

— Cormac McCarthy, book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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