True Detective
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Rust: As sentient meat, however illusory our identities are, we craft those identities by making value judgements. Everybody judges all the time. Now, you got a problem with that, you're living wrong.
Marty: What's scented meat?
It's hard to find something in a man who rejects people as much as you do.
Marty
Something's been bugging me the last ten years. Not ever day, just now and then. When we went at it, the day you quit, were you holding back?
Marty
My life's been a circle of violence and degradation, as long as I can remember. I'm ready to tie it off.
Rust
Marty: He ain't gonna talk with you.
Rust: I got a car battery and two jumpers cables that argue different.
Marty: If you were drowning, I'd throw you a fuckin barbell. Why would I ever help you?
Rust: Because you have a debt.
Rust: A man remembers his debts.
Marty: I don't dwell in the past.
Rust: Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing.
Marty: If that long.
I had my time where I wondered if this was all in my head. That time passed.
Rust
I've seen more souls lost down a bottle than any pit. At the same time, it's hard to trust a man who can't trust himself with a beer.
Reverend Tuttle
Rust knew exactly who he was and there was no talking him out of it. You know Marty's single big problem was that he never really knew himself. So he never really knew what to want.
Maggie Hart
In a former life I used to exhaust myself navigating crude men who thought they were clever. So ask your questions or I'm leaving.
Maggie Hart
