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If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk--and feisty gentlemen.
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dealing-with-it
mottos
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Larry McMurtry |
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It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae"
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Larry McMurtry |
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1ae76eb
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The older the violin, the sweeter the music.
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Larry McMurtry |
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62c1143
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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
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Larry McMurtry |
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0bb5169
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I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.
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Larry McMurtry |
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I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.
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Larry McMurtry |
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9e79f55
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It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
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Larry McMurtry |
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f55b7dc
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Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it."
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Larry McMurtry |
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6b5b669
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It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added
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Larry McMurtry |
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7eb5a3e
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I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
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truths
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Larry McMurtry |
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a2e0ba8
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Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do."
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Larry McMurtry |
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ecb9e9a
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He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.
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Larry McMurtry |
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cef68ab
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The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters
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Larry McMurtry |
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632b82f
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If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.
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Larry McMurtry |
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da56cf9
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I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.
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Larry McMurtry |
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ec976be
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Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
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Larry McMurtry |
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48af42c
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Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
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Larry McMurtry |
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047d8f5
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I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.
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Larry McMurtry |
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bf0efc8
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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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Larry McMurtry |
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090e761
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Nobody run off with her," Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess."
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Larry McMurtry |
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But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.
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Larry McMurtry |
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The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds. A bush in the backyard was filled with little rainbows as the sun touched the dew. It was tribute enough to sunup that it could make even chaparral bushes look beautiful, Augustus thought, and he watched the p..
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visual-moments
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Larry McMurtry |
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52b7db0
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A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae"
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sex
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Larry McMurtry |
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fb13b3b
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At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?
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love
no-peace
not-rather
disappointed
felt
times
feeling
her
what-if
painful
use
in-love
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Larry McMurtry |
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c66dbea
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The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
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Larry McMurtry |
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I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we're a perfect match, as long as we don't hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch."
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Larry McMurtry |
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d6cf470
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Who asked them dern pigs?" he said. "I guess they tracked us," Augustus said. "They're enterprising pigs."
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Larry McMurtry |
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8c0ed7e
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Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.
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Larry McMurtry |
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98ebab7
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You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here.... We grow our own troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.
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Larry McMurtry |
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dab9074
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There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.
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Larry McMurtry |
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I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.
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Larry McMurtry |
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They don't know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend upon them.
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Larry McMurtry |
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4d9cb97
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By the time the shade had reached the river, Augustus would have mellowed with the evening and be ready for some intelligent conversation, which usually involved talking to himself.
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Larry McMurtry |
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Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.
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Larry McMurtry |
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You don't get the pint, Woodrow, I've walked the earth in my pride all these years. If that's lost, then let the rest be lost with it. There's certain things my vanity won't abide.
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Larry McMurtry |
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I see you're in a hurry to get someplace. It's a great mistake to hurry." "Why?" Joe asked, puzzled by almost everything the traveler said. "Because the grave's our destination," Mr. Sedgwick said. "Those who hurry usually get to it quicker than those who take their time."
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Larry McMurtry |
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WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake--not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.
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Larry McMurtry |
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0547344
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Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
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Larry McMurtry |
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Ride with an outlaw, die with him," he added. "I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough to know how it works. I'm sorry you crossed the line, though." Jake's momentary optimism had passed, and he felt tired and despairing. He would have liked a good bed in a whorehouse and a nice night's sleep. "I never seen no line, Gus," he said. "I was just trying to get to Kansas without getting scalped."
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Larry McMurtry |
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b184c8b
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I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call
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Larry McMurtry |
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a408ada
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It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.
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Larry McMurtry |
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1af642e
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It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to," Clara said. "It's just a waste."
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Larry McMurtry |
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6095508
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All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream. --T. K. Whipple, Study Out the Land
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Larry McMurtry |
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The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.
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morality
sedgwick
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Larry McMurtry |