“I’ll tell you somethin, Sheriff. Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it’s all that more likely it’ll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter. I think about that”

— Cormac McCarthy , book No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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