If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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Llewelyn Moss: Hello?Anton Chigurh: Yes?Llewelyn Moss: Is uh, Carson Wells there?Anton Chigurh: Not in the sense that you mean. You need to come see me.Llewelyn Moss: Who is this?Anton Chigurh: You know who it is. You need to talk to me.Llewelyn Moss: I don't need to talk to you.Anton Chigurh: I think you do. Do you know where I'm going?Llewelyn Moss: Why would I care where you're going?Anton Chigurh: I know where you are.Llewelyn Moss: Yeah? Where am I?Anton Chigurh: You're in the hospital across the river, but that's not where I'm going. Do you know where I'm going?Llewelyn Moss: [blood flows on the floor, and so Chigurh lifts his feet and rests them on the bed] Yeah, I know where you're going.Anton Chigurh: Alright.Llewelyn Moss: You know she won't be there.Anton Chigurh: It doesn't make any difference where she is.Llewelyn Moss: So what are you going up there for?Anton Chigurh: You know how this is going to turn out, don't you?Llewelyn Moss: Nope.Anton Chigurh: I think you do. So this is what I'll offer - you bring me the money and I'll let her go. Otherwise she's accountable, same as you. That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't.
I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman; father too. Me and him was sheriffs at the same time; him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough'd never carried one; that's the younger Jim. Gaston Boykins wouldn't wear one up in Comanche County. I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how they would have operated these times. There was this boy I sent to the 'lectric chair at Huntsville Hill here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killt a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. "Be there in about fifteen minutes". I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "O.K., I'll be part of this world."
Boot Salesman: How those Larry's holdin' up?Llewelyn Moss: Uh, oh, good. Good! I need everything else.Boot Salesman: OK.Llewelyn Moss: Lotta people come in here without any clothes on?Boot Salesman: No sir, it's unusual.