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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f6813fb | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 614d03d | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0486f9b | 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." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 597c231 | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 89ef644 | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| fc49993 | Besides, though she considered herself his sweetheart, she didn't consider him her master. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c2cc173 | He had his knife and gun belt on over his underwear, in case of sudden attack. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| b069653 | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4d55cda | The skinny ones last longer than the fat ones," Louisa said. "You'll probably last till you're about sixty." -- | Larry McMurtry | ||
| bbc3a68 | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| ab18e88 | There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did mean? | penises | Larry McMurtry | |
| 2692a85 | Afterwards the members of the little war party felt fine. Torturing whites was a splendid way to spend the afternoon. | war-party whites | Larry McMurtry | |
| ebbbe0e | Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6784185 | Trees had been so common that it was a shock to ride out on the plains and discover that there was a part of earth where there weren't any. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| d381964 | She didn't know what to do with the severed leg. She had cut it off, but she didn't want to touch it or even look at it. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a69b870 | He had not stayed, but when he had gone, he hadn't fought, either. He had done nothing but ride twice over the same stretch of prairie, while death had come to both camps. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 7e0b640 | She sighed. Men were a pain. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 792fd43 | She wasn't going to succeed in newspapers if she didn't ask the big questions when she could. | newspapers | Larry McMurtry | |
| 41ca118 | Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity? | woman | Larry McMurtry | |
| fd3ce66 | He decided not to shoot the tall stranger, mainly because he admired his soft felt hat. | shoot tall-stranger | Larry McMurtry | |
| aeab5c5 | But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different. | english | Larry McMurtry | |
| 274da4a | They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 51e92d2 | Pea Eye loped up and unfolded himself in the direction of the ground. "Your getting off a horse reminds me of an old crane landing in a mud puddle," Augustus said." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 75d6757 | Augustus said. "You can't have this leg, and if you're thinking of overpowering me you have to calculate on losing about half the town. I can shoot straight when I'm drunk, too." "I only want to save your life," Dr. Mobley said, taking a drink from the first bottle before pouring Augustus a glassful. "It's my worry, mainly," Augustus said. "You stated your case, but the jury went against you. Jury of one. Did you pay the whore?" "I did," Dr.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 60a00b3 | It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to. | important-things sacrifice sacrifice-for-others | Larry McMurtry | |
| 15defa6 | I don't believe in protein," I said. "I think it's a myth, like vitamins. I don't believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it's all a myth." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 940ba56 | You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae" | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 68f7f68 | I was just doodling at the typewriter, | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 17322fc | A good title can save a book, | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 222bcf7 | I suppose she's just dying of living--that's the one infection that strikes us all down, sooner or later. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| cff514f | Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains. He was not so sure he would ever get to Lorie. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 77f1e6a | He had ridden his horse into the saloon on a dare from a whore - his practice was always to accept dares; it spiced life up a little. | horse saloon spice-of-life whore | Larry McMurtry | |
| e0af78d | Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp," Cody said. "You evidently don't know Jessie," Wyatt said. "If she's in one of her tempers she'd put a hyena to flight ..." | hyena temper wyatt-earp | Larry McMurtry | |
| 743324d | You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 3d56482 | Don't be reviling yourself. None of us is such fine judges of what to do. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 9dce099 | Billy the Kid shooting all those people over in New Mexico has made gunfighting real popular with the public. | gunfighting new-mexico public | Larry McMurtry | |
| d0ad688 | I don't eat the white of eggs if I can help it," Jasper said. "I hear it causes blindness." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c6c22ff | He was fairly drunk, and feeling melancholy about all the sinking he had done in the world. Throughout the rough years the Greek alphabet had leaked out of his mind a letter at a time--in fact, the candle of knowledge he had set out with had burned down to a sorry stub. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| aa9511e | was necessary to ignore most of those Gus made or else you got bogged down in useless conversation. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4292857 | It's my fault for not shooting the son of a bitch while he was drinking. I didn't know who he was at the time, but I should have shot him on suspicion. And then I plumb forgot about it all day. I'm getting too foolish to live. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 466cba8 | He gathers information that we can't see, and puts it together. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 18bbd6e | Perhaps, he thought, as he turned back, that was what Augustus wanted: just to be free for a few days, just to saddle his horse and ride. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 80fe198 | During the day he had not trusted enough, and had worn himself out with pointless scurryings. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 300c4ad | They sorry," Deets said. "Saying won't change it. He's gone, don't worry about him. He's gone to the peaceful place." He put his hand" | Larry McMurtry |