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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0459b94 | Famous Shoes knew the young ranger was scared. Nothing was easier to detect in a man than fear. It showed even in the way he fumbled with his cup while drinking coffee; and it was normal that he would be afraid. He didn't know where he was, | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 762b2b3 | It was a quiet day in Tombstone. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 61513ed | The journeys that people took had always interested him; his own life was a constant journeying, though not quite so constant as it had been before he had his wives and children. Usually he only agreed to scout for the Texans if they were going in a direction he wanted to go himself, in order to see a particular hill or stream, to visit a relative or friend, or just to search for a bird or animal he wanted to observe. Also, he often went ba.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 5b386b7 | was not old enough to understand the need to go back to a place where things were simple. He had no happiness in his face, the young ranger; perhaps he had never had a place where things were simple, a place he could think about when he needed to remember happiness. Perhaps the young ranger had been unlucky--he might have no good place or good time to remember. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4cd0e08 | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 60669f8 | It was often that way with women, it seemed. One minute Lorie would be drilling holes in him with her eyes, and the next minute she and Clarie would be combing one another's hair and singing tunes. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 484dd66 | When the lightning struck, the whole prairie would be bathed for a second in white light. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c54dd01 | Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on--she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better--in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4560087 | That possibility alone made his quandary more difficult. His wife had left for parts unknown, his deputy was wandering in other parts unknown, and the man he was supposed to catch was in yet other parts unknown. In fact, July felt he had reached a point in his life where virtually nothing was known. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8c575cf | I'll pass on snow myself, when I have the option. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6a70c4e | could put no weight on the wounded ankle at | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a8e346d | Basically Jake just dreamed his way through life and somehow got by with it. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 99306ce | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8872210 | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 9be063c | Woodrow don't mention nothing he can keep from mentioning. You couldn't call him a mentioner. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6a56b45 | 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." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 5b5cb50 | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 06c19a8 | he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 013e1d6 | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| e68d0d8 | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 64255bc | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| eff6c06 | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 24ecb03 | I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman. | vanity | Larry McMurtry | |
| dcd4f5a | Somewhere along the Rio Concho, he had stopped feeling that he lived in a world where ledgers mattered. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 10ea401 | 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, | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f2d0d6a | the family got nervous about blood poisoning and persuaded he and Call to saw it off. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0c3faa7 | When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life. | grown grown-ups | Larry McMurtry | |
| 3f8b35e | A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well. | sleep sleeping | Larry McMurtry | |
| bce377a | A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life. | sleep sleeping sleeps waste | Larry McMurtry | |
| 5c0859a | 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. | fear fearsome thinking woman | Larry McMurtry | |
| 547442a | If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn't find out, that person always did. | finding-out-the-truth hope hoping | Larry McMurtry | |
| dde0a54 | 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. | feeling felt going-to-happen time woman | Larry McMurtry | |
| 8db52f3 | 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 .. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a65b4da | 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." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6010375 | The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour. | love passed thought thought-to-ponder years | Larry McMurtry | |
| 13a3f50 | It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely. | behaviour concerned men mens-mind mind something strange strange-behaviour women | Larry McMurtry | |
| 1ea6df9 | The best to do with a death was to move on from it. | best-idea best-to-do dead death die died leave-behind move-on passed passed-on | Larry McMurtry | |
| 62fcc43 | 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.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4b02ecb | Life ain't for sissies, as Augustus might have said. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 930477b | 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." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8030ee8 | 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. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4883641 | 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." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 94fed7d | I'm tired of justice, ain't you? | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f2aafca | 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." | Larry McMurtry |