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Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.
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Larry McMurtry

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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country."--Augustus McCrae
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Larry McMurtry

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And it’s the only whorehouse in town. They say if you can sprout up twelve inches of dick you get to fuck free.
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Larry McMurtry

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I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something." --Sheriff Toots Burns.
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There would be a trial, of course. But I had watched a few trials in Thalia, and I had seen people a lot dumber than Hud get away with a lot worse than what he did.
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Dern, I hate cooking with shit. -- Augustus McCrae to Lorena Wood
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You ought to take more chances," I said. "I took too many earlier," she said. "I'm sorry.
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Larry McMurtry

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Death and worse happened on the plains.
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Larry McMurtry

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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.
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The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.
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Larry McMurtry

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I'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.
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Larry McMurtry

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He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn’t do barring a miracle.
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Larry McMurtry

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It’s a fine world, though rich in hardships at times,” Augustus said.
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In fact, July felt he had reached a point in his life where virtually nothing was known.
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Larry McMurtry

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Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.
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Larry McMurtry

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There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.
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Larry McMurtry

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Do you know what it means to be heartbroken?...It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly.
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Larry McMurtry

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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
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I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot,” Nellie said. “But bagpipers are pretty much my limit.
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Larry McMurtry

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No half measures,” he muttered several times. It was his personal motto; he intended to have it latinised and put on a crest.
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Larry McMurtry

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Well, boys," Long Bill said. "I guess here's where I quit rangering. It's rare sport, but it ain't quite safe.
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Larry McMurtry

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I don’t claim to know much: cards, fucking, and dentistry about covers it,” Doc said.
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Larry McMurtry

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Jake, you’re a dern grasshopper,” Augustus said. “You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you’re talking California.
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Larry McMurtry

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A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
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Larry McMurtry

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Figure the reason you don’t have much to say is you probably never met a man who liked to hear a woman talk.
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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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Larry McMurtry

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Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.
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Larry McMurtry

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He loved the way she smelled in the mornings; he liked to sniff at her shoulders or her throat.
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It's very peculiar, the situations life presents one with, Father Geoff reflected.
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Larry McMurtry

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She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.
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Larry McMurtry

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It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life.
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Nothing good ever comes without a price.
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Larry McMurtry

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It doesn’t do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to,” Clara said. “It’s just a waste.
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He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.
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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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Larry McMurtry

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The whole point of loyalty was not to change: stick with those who stuck with you.
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He might die, but at least he could fight first, and not simply pass his days shaking at the expectation of slaughter.
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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 ...
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Larry McMurtry

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Such is the life and death of a good cowboy.
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Larry McMurtry

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It’s his dern laziness,” Call said. “Jake just kind of drifts. Any wind can blow him.
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You’re like a starving person whose stomach is shrunk up from not having any food. You’re shrunk up from not wanting nothing.
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Larry McMurtry

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People got opinions, that's all they've got.
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Larry McMurtry

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His feet were swollen to twice their size, besides being cut here and there. Yet they were the only feet he had, and after dozing for an hour in the sun, he got up and hobbled on.
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Larry McMurtry

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But then July accepted it and never scolded back, so perhaps that was the way of the world: women scolded, and men kept quiet and stayed out of the way as much as possible.
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Larry McMurtry

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The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.
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Jordan Peterson

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There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.
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Alissa Quart

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Live simply so that others may simply live.

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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
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Bell Hooks

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