True Detective

Marty Hart: You know, I've seen all the different types. We all fit a certain category - the bully, the charmer, the, uh, surrogate dad, the man possessed by ungovernable rage, the brain - and any of those types could be a good detective, and any of those types could be an incompetent shitheel. Maynard Gilbough: Which type were you? Marty Hart: Oh, just a regular type dude... with a big ass dick.

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There can be a burden in authority, in vigilance, like a father's burden. It was too much for some men. A smart guy who's steady is hard to find. I was all right, better than some, but, you know, I knew how to talk to people, and I was steady. Rust - now his Texas files were classified or redacted, and he wasn't big on talking except when you wanted him to shut up, but he was smart.

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Rust Cohle: People out here, they don't even know the outside world exists. Might as well be living on the fucking Moon. Marty Hart: There's all kinds of ghettos in the world. Rust Cohle: It's all one ghetto man, giant gutter in outer space.

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Rust Cohle: I'd consider myself a realist, alright? But in philosophical terms I'm what's called a pessimist. Marty Hart: Okay, what's that mean? Rust Cohle: It means I'm bad at parties. Marty Hart: Let me tell you, you ain't great outside of parties either.

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Rust Cohle: I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. Marty Hart: Wow, that sounds God fucking awful, Rust. Rust Chole: We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody's nobody. Marty Hart: I wouldn't go around spouting that shit if I was you. People around here don't think that way, I don't think that way. Rust Chole: I think the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming. Stop reproducing. Walk hand in hand into extinction. One last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal. Marty Hart: So, what's the point in getting out of bed in the morning? Rust Cohle: I tell myself I bear witness, but the real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I la

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Rust Cohle: This place is like somebody's memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It's like there was never anything here but jungle. Marty Hart: Stop saying shit like that. It's unprofessional.

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