Quotes
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George Tess : He had to be brave. All we wanted was horses, food.
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George Tess : Now, women have a hard time understanding sometimes, Mister. You know they lead a sheltered life. They, well, they don't get beat up by the town bully when they're kids, or have a gunshot wound closed up with a hot branding iron, or have a man stomp them to death, or kill him in a gunfight. They're not softened up any. They don't learn. That makes them stubborn, foolish.
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George Tess : [Describing his best friends] I got a Mexican out there, and a stoved up cowboy, and a buffalo hunter with half his brains left. All they wanna do is live.
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Elizabeth Purdy : You try to kill me or mine, you do it thirsty.
George Tess : All right, little one. I'm not gonna kill yah, but rest assured of that. 'Cos I want you to live.
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George Tess : All we wanted was food, horses.
Preacher : George! GEORGE!
George Tess : I hear yah.
Preacher : [the woman is on the ground sobbing over her murdered husband] There are no horses, not enough food. We'll have to head south now.
George Tess : In a little while.
Preacher : It's a hundred miles of desert. Can't carry enough water.
George Tess : Three hundred lousy dollars in a lousy hick town bank. You're right, Deacon, head south. There are two waterholes there. I hope they ain't dry. Come here, little one.
[the woman stops weeping and looks up in abject horror]
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Johnny Yuma : Your option, pig, hang or be shot.
George Tess : First, I'm gonna kill yah, Reb. Then I'm gonna "talk" to that lady in there.
