“I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.”

No Country for Old Men (2005)

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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