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It didn't do to ignore men. The majority of them were harmless, with nothing worse than a low capacity to irritate--they were worse than chiggers but not as bad as bedbugs, in her view.
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And the blue pigs walked all the way to Montana just to be eaten. Life ain't for sissies, as Augustus might have said.
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It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.
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paces
required
trying
wearying
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He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.
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past
past-and-present
present
time
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Ikey had passed his seventieth year and considered anyone under fifty to be callow, at best.
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Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.
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felt
he-knew
his-life
life
love
love-of-his-life
meant-the-most
missed
one-person
only-love
women
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Now there was a crack, a kind of canyon, between the Woodrow Call sitting with Teresa on the train and the Woodrow Call who had made the campfire that morning and saddled his horse. The crack was permanent, the canyon deep. He could not get across it, back to himself. His last moments as himself had been spent casually--making a campfire, drinking coffee, saddling a horse.
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Pussyfooting is a vice I have been concerned to avoid.
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Why would you want to keep in practice being wrong?" Call asked. "I'd think it would be something you'd try to avoid." "You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it," Augustus said. "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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Every time Roscoe tried to think back along the line of events that had led to his being in a place where there was no trees to lean against, he strayed off the line and soon got all tangled up in his thinking. It was probably better not to try and think back down the line of life.
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The man turned his blue eyes on July for a moment. 'Why, son, I'm fine,' he said. 'You're the one in trouble. I can see you carry a weight on your heart. You're hurrying along to do something you may not want to do. I see by your badge that you're a lawman. But the crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes. I have often sinned worse than the murderer, and yet I try to live in virtue.
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The thought crossed his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer.
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You are like me, a free man. The sky is your wife.
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Son, this is a sad thing," Augustus said. "Loss of life always is. But the life is lost for good. Don't you go attempting vengeance. You've got more urgent business. If I ever run into Blue Duck I'll kill"
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No, but I have passed the point in life where I expect to be satisfied," Augustus said. "At least I don't expect to be satisfied with much. When it comes right down to it, Woodrow, I guess my own cooking beats anything I've come across in this life."
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Wantin' takes too much time...I'd rather be working.
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I don't think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don't suit you, so you managed to avoid it.
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He had seen highly competent men stand as if paralyzed in a crisis, though once someone took command and told them what to do they might perform splendidly.
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Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.
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determination
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He wondered if all men felt such disappointment when thinking of themselves. He didn't know.
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Is the girl all right?" "She's had an ordeal but she's young," Augustus said. "She won't forget it, but she might outlive it."
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Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.
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natural
skill
sleep
sleeping
sleeps
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It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.
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could-not-bear
disappoint
for-good
own-good
weakness
woman
women
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c51b426
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Earlier in his life he had done many foolish things in order to convince himself that he was not worthless
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He had known several men who had lost limbs in battle; the men all claimed that they still felt things in the place where the limb had been. It was natural enough, then, that with Bill suddenly gone he and Gus would continue to have some of the feelings that went with friendship, even though the friend was gone.
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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 -- Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove"
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Part of him wanted to remember; part of him needed to forget.
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I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.
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songs
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I nowadays have the feeling that not only are most bookmen are eccentrics, but even the act they support--reading--is itself an eccentricity now, if a mild one. Interrupted narrative has become a natural thing. One could argue that Dickens and the other popular, serially published nineteenth-century novelists started this, and the television commercial made interruption come to seem normal. But the silicon chip has accelerated the process o..
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the moment indifference took over, life began to subside. Few men rose out of it: most lost all impulse toward activity and ended by offering death at least a halfhearted welcome.
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He didn't understand why women had such a need to question. He himself preferred just to let life happen, and act when opportunity arose.
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Captain McCrae was wanting to know the answer to questions that had no answer.
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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.
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by far my most popular novel, and one that allows me to join the small company of "respectable" writers whose fiction deals with the American West: Cormac McCarthy, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Tom Lee and a handful of others,"
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With both the Indian and the women he was always left with the feeling that, without meaning to, he had made some kind of mistake.
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by the end of the week, all the cowboys along the river knew that the only sporting woman in Lonesome Dove had abruptly given up the sport.
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What would you know about anything, Jasper?" Augustus asked. "Age don't slow a man's whoring. It's lack of income that does that. No more prosperous than you look, I wouldn't think you'd know much about it."
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I still think we ought to just hire the town and take it with us. Then we'd have a good barkeep and someone to play the pianer.
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Looking at her, though, was like looking at the hills. The hills stayed as they were. You could go them, if you had the means, but they extended no greeting.
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Besides, though she considered herself his sweetheart, she didn't consider him her master.
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He had his knife and gun belt on over his underwear, in case of sudden attack.
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Larry McMurtry |
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b069653
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It only went to show what he already knew, which was that there were more dangers in life than even the sharpest training could anticipate.
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The skinny ones last longer than the fat ones," Louisa said. "You'll probably last till you're about sixty." --
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A chain of follies had put him there: Call's abrupt decision to become a cattleman and his own decision, equally abrupt, to try and rescue a girl foolish enough to be taken in by Jake Spoon. None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked.
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