Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove (1985)

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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

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The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

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

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It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.

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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.

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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

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Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.

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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.

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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.

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Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

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-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

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It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.

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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

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I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

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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.

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For most of the hours of the day — and most of the months of the year — the sun had the town trapped deep in dust, far out in the chaparral flats, a heaven for snakes and horned toads, roadrunners and stinging lizards, but a hell for pigs and Tennesseans.

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He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

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