All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin' up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didn't have a reason for it.
Yessir
You know what it is?
No sir.
It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be.
Yessir.
from The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
My father had a saying that amounts to the same thing: "There's no such thing as a good excuse."
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