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Anton Chigurh: How much? Proprietor: $0.69. Chigurh: And the gas. Proprietor: [trying to make conversation] Y'all gettin' any rain up your way? Chigurh: ...what way would that be? [starts eating the peanuts] Proprietor: I seen you was from Dallas. Chigurh: What business is it of yours, where I'm from... "friendo"? Proprietor: [confused] I didn't mean nothing by it. Chigurh: "Didn't mean nothing." Proprietor: Just passing the time. If you don't wanna accept that, I don't know what else I can do for you. Will there be something else? Chigurh: I don't know, will there? Proprietor: [minor pause. He clears his throat] Is something wrong? Chigurh: [confused] With what? Proprietor: With anything. Chigurh: [mildly amused, though hardly showing it] Is that what you're asking me? "Is there something wrong with anything"? Proprietor: Will there be anything else? Chigurh: You already asked me that. Proprietor: [pause] Well, I need to see about closing now. Chigurh: See about closing? Proprietor: Y

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Deputy Wendell: This is turnin' into a hell of a mess, ain't it, Sheriff? Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: If it isn't, it'll do until the mess gets here.

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Carla Jean Moss: What're you goin' to do? Llewelyn Moss: I'm fixin' to do somethin' dumber'n hell but I'm goin' anyways. If I don't come back, tell Mother I love her. Carla Jean: Your mother's dead, Llewelyn. Llewelyn: Well then, I'll tell her myself.

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Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: Aw, now that's aggravatin'. Deputy Wendell: Sheriff? Bell: [Gestures to a bottle of milk on the coffee table] Still sweatin'. Wendell: Oh, Sheriff! We just missed him! We gotta circulate this, on radio! Bell: Alright. Then what do we circulate? Lookin' for a man who's recently drunk milk? Wendell: Oh, Sheriff, that's aggravatin'. Bell: I'm ahead of you, there. Wendell: You think this boy Moss has got any notion of the sorts of sons of bitches that're on him? Bell: I don't know, he ought to. He's seen the same things I've seen, and it's certainly made an impression on me.

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Man Who Hires Wells: You know Anton Chigurh by sight. Is that correct? Carson Wells: Yes, sir. I know him every which way. Man Who Hires Wells: When did you last see him? Wells: Uh, November 28th of last year. Man Who Hires Wells: You seem pretty sure of the date. Did I ask you to sit? Wells: [sitting down] No sir, but you struck me as a man who wouldn't want to waste a chair.

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Man Who Hires Wells: How well do you know Chigurh? Carson Wells: Well enough. Man Who Hires Wells: That's not an answer. Wells: What do you want to know? Man Who Hires Wells: I'd just like to know your opinion of him in general. Just how dangerous is he? Wells: Compared to what, bubonic plague? He's bad enough you called me. He's a psychopathic killer, but so what? There's plenty of 'em around. Man Who Hires Wells: He killed three men in a motel in Del Rio yesterday, and two others at that colossal goatfuck out in the desert. Wells: We can stop that. Man Who Hires Wells: You seem pretty sure of yourself. You've led something of a charmed life, haven't you, Mr. Wells? Wells: In all honesty, I can't say that charm has had a whole lot to do with it.

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Carson Wells: You know, I, uh, counted the floors of this building from the street. Man Who Hires Wells: And? Wells: Well, there's one missing. Man Who Hires Wells: We'll look into it.

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Carson Wells: Buenos días. I'm guessing this isn't the future you had planned for yourself when you first clapped eyes on that money. Don't worry. I'm not the man who's after you. Llewelyn Moss: I know that. I've seen him. Wells: You've seen him, and you're not dead? Moss: What's this guy supposed to be, the ultimate badass? Wells: No, I wouldn't describe him as that. Moss: How would you describe him? Wells: I guess I would say he doesn't have a sense of humor.

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Carson Wells: You don't have to do this. I'm a day trader. I could just go home. Anton Chigurh: You could? Wells: I could make it worth your while. I could take you to an ATM with 14 grand in it, and everyone just walks away. Chigurh: [amused] An ATM. Wells: I know where the satchel is. Chigurh: If you knew, you would have it with you. Wells: I can find it from the riverbank. I know where it is. Chigurh: I know something better. I know where it's going to be. Wells: Where's that? Chigurh: It will be brought to me and placed at my feet. Wells: You don't know to a certainty. Twenty minutes, it could be here. Chigurh: I do know to a certainty, and you know what's going to happen now, Carson. You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it. Wells: You go to hell. Chigurh: All right. Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule? Wells: Do you have any idea how crazy you are? Chigurh: You mean the nature of this conversat

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Ellis: Loretta tells me you're quittin'. How come you're doin' that? Ed Tom Bell: I don't know. I feel overmatched. I always figured when I got older, God would sort of come into my life in some way, and He didn't. And I don't blame Him. If I was Him, I'd have the same opinion of me that He does. Ellis: You don't know what He thinks.

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Ellis: I sent Uncle Mac's thumb buster and badge over to the Rangers, to put in their museum. Daddy ever tell you how Uncle Mac come to his reward? [Ed Tom shakes his head] Gunned down on his own porch, over in Hudspeth County. Seven or eight of 'em come up there, wantin' this and wantin' that. Uncle Mac went back in the house to get the shotgun, and well, they was ahead of him. Shot him in his doorway. Aunt Ella come out, to try and stop the bleedin', and Uncle Mac all the while tryin' to get that shotgun. They just sat there on their horses, watchin' him die. After a while, one of 'em said somethin' in Indian, and they turned and left out. Uncle Mac knew the score, even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through the left lung. And that was that, as they say. Ed Tom Bell: When'd he die? Ellis: Nineteen-zero and, uh, nine? Bell: No, I mean was it right away, or in the night, or when was it? Ellis: I believe it was that night. She buried him the next mornin', diggin' in that hard old caliche. Wh

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Carla Jean Moss: I knew this wasn't done with. Anton Chigurh: No. Carla Jean: I ain't got the money. What little I had is long gone and there's bills a-plenty to pay yet. I buried my mother today. I ain't paid for that neither. Chigurh: I wouldn't worry about it. Carla Jean: I need to sit down. You got no cause to hurt me. Chigurh: No, but I gave my word. Carla Jean: You gave your word? Chigurh: To your husband. Carla Jean: That don't make sense. You gave your word to my husband to kill me? Chigurh: Your husband had the opportunity to save you. Instead, he used you to try to save himself. Carla Jean: Not like that. Not like you say. You don't have to do this. Chigurh: People always say the same thing. Carla Jean: What do they say? Chigurh: They say, "You don't have to do this." Carla Jean: You don't. Chigurh: [sighs] Okay. [tosses a coin] This is the best I can do. Call it. Carla Jean: I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sittin' there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me. Chigu

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Loretta Bell: How'd you sleep? Ed Tom Bell: I don't know. Had dreams. Loretta: Well, you got time for 'em now. Anything interesting? Ed Tom: Well, they always is to the party concerned. Loretta: Ed Tom, I'll be polite. Ed Tom: All right then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em. It's peculiar. I'm older now than he ever was by twenty years. So, in a sense, he's the younger man. Anyway, the first one I don't remember too well but, it was about meetin' him in town somewheres and he give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains overnight. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by, just rode on past. And he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down. When he rode past, I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do, and I-I could see the horn from t