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1. "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" ~ Larry McMurtry

2. "The older the violin, the sweeter the music." ~ Larry McMurtry

3. "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." ~ Larry McMurtry

4. "Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back." ~ Larry McMurtry

5. "Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps." ~ Larry McMurtry

6. "The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight." ~ Larry McMurtry

7. "It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added" ~ Larry McMurtry

8. "It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times." ~ Larry McMurtry

9. "I never met a soul in this world as normal as me." ~ Larry McMurtry

10. "Nobody run off with her," Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess." ~ Larry McMurtry

11. "One day Augustus asked Newt to ride along with him, much to Newt's surprise. In the morning they saw a grizzly, but the bear was far upwind and didn't scent them. It was a beautiful day—no clouds in the sky. Augustus rode with his big rifle propped across the saddle—he was in the highest of spirits. They rode ahead of the herd some fifteen miles or more, and yet when they stopped to look back they could still see the cattle, tiny black dots in the middle of the plain, with the southern horizon still far behind them." ~ Larry McMurtry

12. "wanted to. She was looking forward to the trip. 35. THE" ~ Larry McMurtry

13. "From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness." ~ Larry McMurtry

14. "I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call" ~ Larry McMurtry

15. "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." ~ Larry McMurtry

16. "Ride with an outlaw, die with him," he added. "I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough to know how it works. I'm sorry you crossed the line, though." Jake's momentary optimism had passed, and he felt tired and despairing. He would have liked a good bed in a whorehouse and a nice night's sleep. "I never seen no line, Gus," he said. "I was just trying to get to Kansas without getting scalped." ~ Larry McMurtry

17. "(first lines) Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him in the mornings early, when the streets were completely empty, the way they were one Saturday morning in late November." ~ Larry McMurtry

18. "i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out." ~ Larry McMurtry

19. "This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call)" ~ Larry McMurtry

20. "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." ~ Larry McMurtry

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

22. "Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them." ~ Larry McMurtry

23. "I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love." ~ Larry McMurtry

24. "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." ~ Larry McMurtry

25. "But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central theme of the novel is not the stocking of Montana but unacknowledged paternity. All of the Hat Creek Outfit, including particularly Augustus McCrae, want Call to accept the boy as his son." ~ Larry McMurtry

26. "Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic." ~ Larry McMurtry

27. "No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start." ~ Larry McMurtry

28. "Americans don't want cowboys to be gay." ~ Larry McMurtry

29. "Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made." ~ Larry McMurtry

30. "Self-parody is the first portent of age." ~ Larry McMurtry

31. "True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it." ~ Larry McMurtry

32. "Is growin' up always miserable?" Sonny asked. "Nobody seems to enjoy it much." "Oh, it ain't necessarily misearble," Sam replied. "About eighty percent of the time, I guess." They were silent again, Sam the Lion thinking of the lovely, spritely girl he had once led into the water, right there, where they were sitting. "We ought to go to a real fishin' tank next year," Sam said finally. "It don't do to think about things like that too much. If she were here now I'd probably be crazy again in about five minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?" A half-hour later, when they had gathered up the gear and were on the way to town, he answered his own question. "It ain't really, " he said. "Being crazy about a woman like her's always the right thing to do. Being a decrepit old bag of bones is what's ridiculous." ~ Larry McMurtry

33. "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." ~ Larry McMurtry

34. "Uva uvum vivendo varia fit" ~ Larry McMurtry

35. "The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them." ~ Larry McMurtry

36. "Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep." ~ Larry McMurtry

37. "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." ~ Larry McMurtry

38. "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." ~ Larry McMurtry

39. "I just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something."--Sheriff Toots Burns." ~ Larry McMurtry

40. "You should be proud of her. She cracked the wall, and I never thought I'd live to see it cracked."What are you talking about?" I said. "What wall?"The one you built around you," Jeannie said. "Don't say it wasn't there. It was there. I tried to crack it but I didn't have the confidence, you know? What happened is, it cracked me, but that's okay, I'm working around my crack pretty well. But you were dying behind your wall, and you're lucky to have a daughter who has the guts to crack it. I hope she smashes it to fucking smithereens and you never have another peaceful day in your whole fucking life, Mr. Deck!" ~ Larry McMurtry

41. "He sat where he was, on Mouse, in the grip of terrible indecision. He almost wished something would happen—a sudden attack of Mexicans or something. He might be killed, but at least he wouldn't have to make a choice between disobeying Mr. Gus and disobeying Lorena." ~ Larry McMurtry

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

43. "If you mean Miss Austen, I don't find her particularly romantic," Tasmin declared. "Can't say that I care much about the marriage arrangements among the middle classes."Tasmin Berrybender" ~ Larry McMurtry

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

45. ". . . 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." ~ Larry McMurtry

46. "Deets slapped his leg and laughed, the thought was so funny. When the rest of the outfit finally wondered down from the house they found the two of them grinning back and forth at one another."Look at 'em," Augustus said. "You'd think they just discovered teeth." ~ Larry McMurtry

47. "It's very peculiar, the situations life presents one with, Father Geoff reflected." ~ Larry McMurtry

48. "Dern, I hate cooking with shit. -- Augustus McCrae to Lorena Wood" ~ Larry McMurtry

49. "stroked and soothed his agitated mount." ~ Larry McMurtry

50. "How he died hadn't been funny, Newt thought. "It's all right, though," Augustus said. "It's mostly bones we're riding over anyway. Why, think of all the buffalo that have died on these plains. Buffalo and other critters too. And the Indians have been here forever; their bones are down there in the earth. I'm told that over in the Old Country you can't dig six feet without uncovering skulls and leg bones and such. People have been living there since the beginning, and their bones have kinda filled up the ground. It's interesting to think about, all the bones in the ground. But it's just fellow creatures, it's nothing to shy from." ~ Larry McMurtry

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