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could put no weight on the wounded ankle at
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Basically Jake just dreamed his way through life and somehow got by with it.
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Po Campo had given him a hailstone dipped in molasses and he sat licking it and feeling alternately happy and sad while the men got dressed and prepared to be cowboys again.
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no matter how well he worked. It was a little discouraging: the harder he tried to please the Captain, the less the Captain seemed to be pleased.
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Woodrow don't mention nothing he can keep from mentioning. You couldn't call him a mentioner.
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When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt. "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly."
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He turned the cylinder of the Colt and listened to the small, clear clicks it made. The grip was wood, the barrel cool and blue; the holster had kept a faint smell of saddle soap. He slipped the gun back in its holster, put the gun belt around his waist and felt the gun's solid weight against his hip. When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.
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he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't.
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he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over. The thing to do was go.
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He himself had once been a man of firm opinion, but now it seemed to him that he knew almost nothing, whereas the words Clara flung at him were hard as rocks.
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But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again.
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In the vastness of the desert, each reduction of the group made them realize how small they were, how puny, in relation to the space they were traveling through.
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I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.
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vanity
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Somewhere along the Rio Concho, he had stopped feeling that he lived in a world where ledgers mattered.
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but mash whiskey took some of the dry away and made Augustus feel nicely misty inside--foggy and cool as a morning in the Tennessee hills. He seldom got downright drunk, but he did enjoy feeling misty along about sundown,
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the family got nervous about blood poisoning and persuaded he and Call to saw it off.
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When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.
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grown
grown-ups
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A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.
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sleep
sleeping
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A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.
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sleep
sleeping
sleeps
waste
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It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.
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fear
fearsome
thinking
woman
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If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn't find out, that person always did.
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finding-out-the-truth
hope
hoping
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It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were into an argument, and they were telling you what was going to happen.
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feeling
felt
going-to-happen
time
woman
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When any of these billionaires enters the market for rare books, it is little wonder that there is no ceiling. Not long ago a dealer put $500,000 on a copy of Prufrock inscribed by Eliot to the great French poet Paul Valery. It had been in the Rechler sale, and here it was again, already notched up. Whether the dealer sold it I don't know. If he did--or if he didn't--it is a copy that is sure to come into the auction rooms again. Those 946 ..
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alone. "A military unit is a fine thing when it works," he said. "But it usually don't work. A solitary feat of arms is better, if the foe is worthy."
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The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.
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love
passed
thought
thought-to-ponder
years
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It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.
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behaviour
concerned
men
mens-mind
mind
something
strange
strange-behaviour
women
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The best to do with a death was to move on from it.
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best-idea
best-to-do
dead
death
die
died
leave-behind
move-on
passed
passed-on
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Call had never thought much about age. Charlie Goodnight liked to talk about it, but Call found the talk tedious. He was as old as he was, like everyone else; as long as he could still go when he needed to go, age didn't matter much. He was still able, within reason, to do what he had a mind to do. But he'd had a mind to kill the large doe, and he hadn't. Of course, he wasn't an exceptional shot. He had missed mule deer before, but the fact..
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Life ain't for sissies, as Augustus might have said.
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I needed a man," Call replied. "I was hoping he might turn out to be a fighter." "No, he's just a jailer," Billy said."
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I don't sing about myself. I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don't belong to me . . . They belong to those who hear them.
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It's a funny life," Augustus said. "All these cattle and nine-tenths of the horses is stolen, and yet we was once respected lawmen. If we get to Montana we'll have to go into politics. You'll wind up governor if the dern place ever gets to be a state. And you'll spend all your time passing laws against cattle thieves."
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I'm tired of justice, ain't you?
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Why in the hell would anybody think they wanted to take cattle to Montana?" Dixon, the scout, said. He had an insolent look. "We thought it would be a good place to sit back and watch 'em shit," Augustus said. Insolence was apt to bring out the comic in him."
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What's that?" Mr. Bynum said. He leaned over me, fists doubled up. "Vagina, fallopian tube, penis, scrotum," I said. It took them both aback. I meant for it to. "That ain't what you said," Mr. Bynum said. But I had him slightly off guard. "No sir," I said. "What I said to Mrs. Bynum was cunt and prick and fuck and shit." I pronounced each word very distinctly. The Bynums were silent. The encounter had taken a bewildering turn. I gave t..
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all vessels leaked to some degree.
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It's happiness to see you.
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Without realizing it, he had been wasting time--years and years of time, time that would never be his again. He had failed to take advantage of the diversity of opportunity that had been, all along, available to him.
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CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK, SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR.
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But, as with people, some plants were completely useless.
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Most of the talk of human beings was silly talk, talk that was of less weight than a man's breath.
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Without risk there was no power, not for a grown man.
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All his work, and it hadn't saved anyone, or slowed the moment of their going by a minute.
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The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring, usually within a few days.
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