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Carver: Son, nobody can protect nobody in this world. The sooner you realize that, the better.
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Hayes: Reckon we ought to camp somewheres else?
Carver: Afraid the word of God will spoil your digestion?
Hayes: I never was much for scripture.
Carver: Nothing to fear, Mr. Hayes. Them's just words. Ain't no God out here.
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[first lines]
Hayes: Well, we definitely got I'm. I wouldn't say gut shot, but got 'im pretty good.
Pope: He didn't even take his rifle. Horse run off though.
Hayes: It's cleared up some. Why don't we get a move on.
Carver: Let him bleed...
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The Kid: How do you write "wife"?
Hayes: Kid, that's W-H-O-R-E. Don't much matter how you spell it, a woman ain't gonna be yours unless you're paying her for the night. You pay her to be sweet to you, kid, that's all. Don't never mix up money and love.
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Gideon: [looks at emptied money pouch] No wonder you don't talk much. Too busy thieving.
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Madame Louise Fair: You men, you always choosing a gun over a remedy.
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Gideon: Why are you doing this?
Carver: Seraphim Falls.
Carver: If you kill this son of a bitch, it will not be paid. Extremities only!
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The Kid: He must be part Indian or wolf. Eat a man like that.
Hayes: He didn't eat him. Go.
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Gideon: Your sister, she don't take kindly to thieving. There's plenty of time for that when you grow up.
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Little Brother: Afraid I'm gonna have to ask you to stop walking.
Gideon: Let me be, boy. Best just go on back up to your kin.
Little Brother: Mister, I never shot nobody in the back before. So it's best you just turn around, and you get what's coming to you.
Gideon: Boy, now you put that gun up and go on.
Little Brother: Turn around.
Gideon: [turns and throws knife into Virgils' neck. Virgil falls off his horse. Gideon bends down and pulls out the knife] You're a fool, boy.
[whips blood off his knife onto his victim]
Gideon: I told you too let me be
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Gideon: Time was, you said your war was over.
Carver: Only the dead can know the end of war, Captain.
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Hayes: Say, how'd you come by that scar on your neck? Indians? Them savages?
Minister: No, it was worse. Mormons. Praise be to God and a good rifle, he answered my prayers and not his.
Hayes: You ought to have a talk with your God about that. Figure he ought to be more careful. You being the chosen folk and all.
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Water Man: Go as you wish. That which is yours will always return to you. That which you take will always be taken from you.
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Madame Louise Fair: Spoken like a true sinner.
Gideon: Well, hell, don't matter much out here.
Madame Louise Fair: Man's got to do what a man's got to do, right?
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Gideon: What do you want?
Carver: I thought that would have been obvious the way I've been shootin' at ya.
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[last lines]
Carver: [at gunpoint] Go on, finish it.
Gideon: [handing gun to him] I believe it's up to you, sir.
Carver: [barely audible] Rose. Rose.
Gideon: [gives him water and some for himself] Come on...
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