Couldn't Have Said it Better Myself

Another rainy, melancholy day in Northern California. Guess the Libbie Custer book is doing okay. I haven’t heard any complaints.  But I remain optomistic as far as that’s concerned.  I’m working on the Sam Sixkiller book and the following up to Hearts West. My mind wanders while I’m working to some of the best dialogue in western films. Some of the lines are just that, but others are things I wish I could say. If only was living in the Old West and had the privilege. These lines are from High Plains Drifter, Breakheart Pass, Open Range, the Outlaw Josie Wales, and my favorite, the Unforgiven.
 
“You a bounty hunter?”
“Man’s gotta do something for a livin’ these days.”

“Dyin’ ain’t much of a livin, boy…”

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“I always heard there was three kinds of suns in Kansas: sunshine, sunflowers and… sons of bitches.”

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“You promised.”

“When a man is a killer, arsonist, cheat and a coward, it’s hardly surprising if he turns out to be a liar, as well.”

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“Be careful… you’re a man who makes people afraid, and that’s dangerous.”

“Well, it’s what people know about themselves inside that makes’em afraid.”

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“It’s a hell of a thing, killin’ a man. Take away all he’s got, and all he’s ever gunna have.”

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“You may not know this but… there’s things that gnaw at a man worse than dyin.”

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“We come for justice, not vengeance. Now them’s two different things.”

“Not today they ain’t.”

My feeling exactly, Mr. Costner.  Like I said, if only this were the Old Wes.

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