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Welcome to Hard Times
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"Welcome to Hard Times" Quotes

"Welcome to Hard Times" by E.L. Doctorow is a dark Western novel that explores the impact of violence and moral decay on a small frontier town struggling to survive.

Quotes

You can’t be a man without a gun.

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violence

Hard times is the only time you can see what people are really made of.

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adversity

You can’t have a town without a whorehouse.

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society

I don’t know what it is, but something about you makes me want to hurt you.

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desire

In Hard Times, you got to be a hero or a heel.

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morality

The only people who make money in a gold rush are the ones selling shovels.

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opportunity

It’s better to be a coward than to be dead.

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fear

Hard times don’t make heroes, they just uncover them.

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character

The people you meet on the way up are the same ones you meet on the way down.

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success

Nothing in life is free, not even death.

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cost