Mattie Ross quotes
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I won't rest until Tom Chaney is barking in Hell.
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If I smelled as bad as you I wouldn't live near people.
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If in four months I could not find Tom Chaney, with a mark on his face like banished Cain, I would not advise others how to do so.
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I also notice that the men of Texas gouge their mounts with great brutal spurs — and cultivate their hair like lettuce!
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I want Tom Chaney hanged for killing my father! It's little to me how many dogs and senators he's killed in Texas.
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Those horses can't outrun Little Blackie! They're loaded down with fat men and iron!
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I'm going! And it's not because you say I can't, and it's not because you say I can. I paid good cash money to be here, and I'm on my own business! Now, we'll have no more talk about it.
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My name is Mattie Ross, of Near Dardanelle in Yell County. My family owns property, and I don't know why I'm being treated like this!
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Rooster Cogburn is no good friend of mine! He led us straight into your hands, and now he has left me with a gang of cut-throats! Is that what they call "grit" in Fort Smith? We call it something else in Yell County.
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Papa's marker is not what was ordered. I will make that wool-headed fool of a stone man change it.