“I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.”

— Cormac McCarthy , book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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