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b9895fd
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I don't claim to know much: cards, fucking, and dentistry about covers it," Doc said."
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dentistry
fucking
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fc6abb7
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Why hell yes, Joe Bob! A cripple can always get himself a wooden leg, or a glass eye, or a metal hook for a hand, or any of that mess -- but there ain't no known substitute for a big dick. I guess you is out of luck!
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Larry McMurtry |
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9331d12
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I think we spent our best years fighting on the wrong side.
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Larry McMurtry |
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31b86d9
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i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.
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Larry McMurtry |
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282389f
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She had always loved to tease and considered it an irony of her life that she was often drawn to men who didn't recognize teasing even when she was inflicting it on them.
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Larry McMurtry |
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2ccfd5b
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He didn't tell Newt all he knew. He didn't tell him that even when life seemed easy, it kept on getting harder.
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Larry McMurtry |
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1c30bff
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Are you expecting a war party?" Call asked the judge. "You seem to be thoroughly armed." "I expect perdition, always have," the judge replied. "I keep this building at my back, and several guns handy, in case perdition arrives in a form that's susceptible to bullets. I expect it will come in the disease form, though. I'm susceptible to diseases, and you can't shoot a goddamn disease."
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08d52a1
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Blue Duck could never avoid a moment of fear, when his father's eyes became the eyes of a snake. He choked off his insult -- he knew that if he spoke, he might, in an instant, find himself fighting Buffalo Hump. He had seen it before, with other warriors. Someone would say one word too many, would fail to see the snake in his father's eyes, and the next moment Buffalo Hump would be pulling his long bloody knife from between the other warrio..
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Larry McMurtry |
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2039698
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You better introduce yourself before you start talking Latin.
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Larry McMurtry |
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4970559
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Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.
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Larry McMurtry |
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4bc3d04
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Dish said no more, and Augustus decided not to tease him. 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. Young Dish, skilled cowhand that he was, might not live to see the whores of Ogallala, and the tender feelings he harbored for Lorena might be the sweetest he would ever have.
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But once in a while, even if nobody mentioned one, the thought of women entered his head all on its own, and once it came it usually tneded to stay for several hours, filling his noggin like a cloud of gnats. Of course, a cloud of gnats was nothing in comparison to a cloud of Gulf coast mosquitoes, so the thought of women was not that bothersome, but it was a thought Pea would rather not have in his head.
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Larry McMurtry |
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138063f
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His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To have to say things on paper seemed a terrible task, for it stirred the memories.
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Larry McMurtry |
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Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself had become old. Even if she wasn't particularly old if you just counted years, the fact was years were no way to count. Happenings were the way to count, the big happening that separated her from youth or even middle age was the death of her daughter, Pepper. That death made her realize that life, once you got around to producing children, was..
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Larry McMurtry |
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16c2391
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Better by far never to have known the pleasure than to have the pain that followed.
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Larry McMurtry |
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f3b3bdb
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Well, I got to admit I still like a fight," Augustus said. "They sharpen the wits. The only other thing that does that is talking to women, which is usually more dangerous."
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Larry McMurtry |
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0cbc888
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You ought to take more chances," I said. "I took too many earlier," she said. "I'm sorry."
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relationships
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1db1bc5
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He loved the way she smelled in the mornings; he liked to sniff at her shoulders or her throat.
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love
her-smell
smelled
liked
mornings
like
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2749c51
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You're the only man I know whose brain don't work unless it's in the shade.
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Larry McMurtry |
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a47ded1
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Wrong theory," Augustus said. "Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death."
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811ba66
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He was tired of seeing his family only in dreams.
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6c77e45
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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 little backyard was filled with the little rainbows as the sun touched the dew.
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seeing
dew
diamonds
place-to-be
horizon
rainbows
feeling
place
sky
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63fab7f
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no medicine man or wise man knew why one man died and another lived. Wise men themselves often died before fools, and cowards before men who were brave.
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Larry McMurtry |
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Do you know what it means to be heartbroken? It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly.
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Larry McMurtry |
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His feet were swollen to twice their size, besides being cut here and there. Yet they were the only feet he had, and after dozing for an hour in the sun, he got up and hobbled on.
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Larry McMurtry |
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818863c
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It's his dern laziness," Call said. "Jake just kind of drifts. Any wind can blow him."
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Larry McMurtry |
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265b568
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I miss Gus...I get to expecting to hear him talk and he ain't here. My ears sort of get empty.
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Larry McMurtry |
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Things are just put together wrong. There's so much shit in the world a man's gonna get in it sooner or later, whether he's careful or not.
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Larry McMurtry |
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64bd2bc
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It was only the thought that Deets was still knowing him, somehow, that kept him from feeling totally alone.
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Larry McMurtry |
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2d3e693
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A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
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Larry McMurtry |
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af6bdfd
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If I'd have wanted civilization I'd have stayed in Tennessee and wrote poetry for a living,
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Larry McMurtry |
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0d8a171
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See this page of paper? It's blank," Scull said. "That, sir, is the most frightening battlefield in the world: the blank page. I mean to fill this paper with decent sentences, sir--this page and hundreds like it. Let me tell you, Colonel, it's harder than fighting Lee. Why, it's harder than fighting Napoleon. It requires unremitting attention,"
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Larry McMurtry |
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66e141b
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Jake, you're a dern grasshopper," Augustus said. "You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you're talking California."
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Larry McMurtry |
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7147c57
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You're like a starving person whose stomach is shrunk up from not having any food. You're shrunk up from not wanting nothing.
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Larry McMurtry |
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af4f791
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Well, boys," Long Bill said. "I guess here's where I quit rangering. It's rare sport, but it ain't quite safe."
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Larry McMurtry |
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c960269
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Such is the life and death of a good cowboy.
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Larry McMurtry |
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01b366a
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No half measures," he muttered several times. It was his personal motto; he intended to have it latinised and put on a crest."
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motto
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Larry McMurtry |
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5fe2300
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He might die, but at least he could fight first, and not simply pass his days shaking at the expectation of slaughter.
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Larry McMurtry |
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a512089
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Governors and legislators wanted the hostiles held in check and the bandits hung, but they wanted it all to be done with the fewest possible men on the cheapest possible horses. It irritated Call and infuriated Augustus.
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Larry McMurtry |
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0f3e82e
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You told me to stay," July said. "I know I did, son," Augustus said. "I'm sure you wish you had. But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. Go on with your digging and I'll tidy up."
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Larry McMurtry |
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34860e3
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I don't know anything about babies," he said. "No, and you've never lived any place but Arkansas," Clara said. "But you ain't stupid and you ain't nailed down. You can live other places and you can learn about children--people dumber than you learn about them."
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Larry McMurtry |
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fc2f2dc
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I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.
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Larry McMurtry |
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93d6f8f
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It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that one loses affection for the major characters because they suck off so much energy as one pushes them through their lives.
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fiction
writing-craft
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Larry McMurtry |
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9c0cf9f
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You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life."
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men
good
love
few-good-men
never-leave
not-like-the-others
marry
manners
sincere
kind
like
promise
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