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No Country for Old Men (2005) (edit title/settings)

by Cormac McCarthy (Author) (edit contributors)

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In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy . The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup... read more

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Llewelyn Moss stumbles across a drug-deal gone bad and discovers 2.4 millions dollars, which he keeps. However, he is spotted and takes off with the money as he is chased. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell attempts to protect Llewelyn and his wife Carla Jean while investigating the drug crime. Hitman... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Llewelyn Moss stumbles across a drug-deal gone bad and discovers 2.4 millions dollars, which he keeps. However, he is spotted and takes off with the money as he is chased. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell attempts to protect Llewelyn and his wife Carla Jean while investigating the drug crime. Hitman Anton Chigurh is hired to retrieve the money as well as his rival Carson Wells. Wells approaches Llewelyn with an offer of help, but is later murdered by Chigurh. Llewelyn calls Wells' phone for help, and is threatened by Chigurh. Llewelyn tells Carla Jean to meat him at a motel, and the call is traced, revealing Llewelyn's location, and he is killed by a drug gang. Chigurh then kills Carla Jean. Bell, after much further investigation in vain, decides to retire.

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  • “The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities, in their minds. They pretend to themselves they are in control of events that, perhaps, they are not.”
    Anton Chigurh
  • “I have no enemies. I don't permit such a thing.”
    Anton Chigurh
  • “Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God.”
    Anton Chigurh
  • “It is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.”
    Anton Chigurh
  • “For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.”
    Anton Chigurh
  • “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    Ellis
  • “There ain't no such thing as a bargain promise.”
    Ellis
  • “It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is somethin I don't want to be wrong about.”
    Sheriff Ed Tom Bell
  • “Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.”
    The man in Houston
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  • It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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  • Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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  • It’s a life’s work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
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  • People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.
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  • You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceilin and guess who’s layin there?
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  • Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person’s path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.
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  • Anything can be an instrument, Chigurh said. Small things. Things you wouldnt even notice. They pass from hand to hand. People dont pay attention. And then one day there’s an accounting. And after that nothing is the same. Well, you say. It’s just a coin. For instance. Nothing special there. What could that be an instrument of? You see the problem. To separate the act from the thing. As if the parts of some moment in history might be interchangeable with the parts of some other moment. How could that be? Well, it’s just a coin. Yes. That’s true. Is it?
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  • You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than what they’re worth.
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  • Finally told me, said: I dont like the way this country is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam I dont think you got any worries about the way the country is headed. The way I see it goin I dont have much doubt but what she’ll be able to have an abortion. I’m goin to say that not only will she be able to have an abortion, she’ll be able to have you put to sleep. Which pretty much ended the conversation.
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  • 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.
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  • DEA: The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States.

First Sentence edit see section history

I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 31 of 99 in NPR's Top 100 Killer Thriller. (community list)
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Cormac McCarthy (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Paulo Faria (Translator)
  2. Tom Stechshulte (Narrator) - narrates unabridged audio cassette eidtion - Recorded Books

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN: 978-0375406775
Page Count: 320

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Reading Level: Adults

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