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I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.
Quote by -Margaret Mitchell
Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler
Quote by -Margaret Mitchell
Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way
Quote by -Margaret Mitchell
If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
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
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
But just let me tell you something, son, a 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. So you better just get over it.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
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.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
By the time the shade had reached the river, Augustus would have mellowed with the evening and be ready for some intelligent conversation, which usually involved talking to himself.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here.... We grow our own troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
They don't know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend upon them.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
Who asked them dern pigs?” he said. “I guess they tracked us,” Augustus said. “They’re enterprising pigs.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
You don't get the pint, Woodrow, I've walked the earth in my pride all these years. If that's lost, then let the rest be lost with it. There's certain things my vanity won't abide.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping out; people made such assumptions about their own continuity.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,' Augustus said. 'And getting drunk on the porch.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
Monkey John looked at the dead boy. "By God, life is cheap up here on the goddamned Canadian River." "Cheap," Blue Duck answered. "And it might get cheaper.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call)
Quote by -Larry McMurtry
At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?
Quote by -Larry McMurtry