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The Shootist Quotes with Sound Clips

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Memorable quotes from the movie The Shootist (1976), featuring short wav/mp3 sound bites.

Actors: John Wayne (J.B. Books), Lauren Bacall (Bond Rogers), Ron Howard (Gillom Rogers)

5 more actors, James Stewart (Dr. Hostetler), Richard Boone (Mike Sweeney), Harry Morgan (Marshal Thibido), John Carradine (Beckum), Scatman Crothers (Moses)

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1 Well, my church has been the mountains and solitude. No doors at all.

J.B. Books (John Wayne)

2 It isn't always being fast, or even accurate that counts. It's being willing.

J.B. Books (John Wayne)

3 I want to go out in the world again, and see the trees, and the lakes, and the hills, and the sky. And I don't fancy seeing it alone.

J.B. Books (John Wayne)

4 My soul is what I've already made of it.

J.B. Books (John Wayne)

5 I lived most of my life in the wild country, and you set a code of laws to live by. -What laws? -I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

J.B. Books (John Wayne)

6 Whoa. I hope you're smart enough to know that that who hit John don't go with guns. -Oh, sure. Yes, sir.

J.B. Books (John Wayne)

7 Aim well and put five slugs in it. -Why not six? -You keep your hammer on an empty chamber for safety.

J.B. Books (John Wayne)

8 As the saying goes in our profession, the early worm gets the bird.

— Beckum (John Carradine)

9 I'm a dying man scared of the dark.

J.B. Books (John Wayne)

10 In my profession, you trust too much, you don't celebrate many birthdays.

J.B. Books (John Wayne)

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