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"If you want one thing as well 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, Lonesome Dove

"It ain't dying I'thousand talking near, information technology's living. I doubt it matters where you lot die, only it matters where you alive." ~spoken by Augustus McCrae"
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"Yesterday'southward gone on down the river and yous tin can't become it back."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Pigeon

"The older the violin, the sweeter the music."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"I'one thousand sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we only didn't have to have the residue of the dern day I'd be a lot happier."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Pigeon

"It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"I'm glad I've been wrong enough to go on in practice. . . You tin't avoid information technology, y'all've got to learn to handle it. If y'all only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it'south leap to be extra painful. I face mine every twenty-four hour period--that way they ain't ordinarily much worse than a dry out shave."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"Information technology's like I told you concluding nighttime son. The earth is mostly simply a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added"
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"The hardest matter on earth is choosing what matters"
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"Live through it," Call said. "That's all nosotros tin can do."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Pigeon

"I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"Telephone call saw that everyone was looking at him, the easily and cowboys and townspeople alike. The acrimony had tuckered out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't call back the fight, peculiarly, merely people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some caption, though it seemed to him a simple situation.
"I hate a human being that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Pigeon

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

"If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to hire pigs won't be stopped."
― Larry McMurtry , Lonesome Dove

"My chief skills are talking and cooking biscuits,' Augustus said. 'And getting drunkard on the porch."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Pigeon

"I never met a soul in this earth equally normal every bit me."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"I hate rude behavior in a human,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Pigeon

"Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"Nobody run off with her," Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I gauge."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Pigeon

"The eastern sky was red every bit dress-down in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds. A bush in the backyard was filled with picayune rainbows as the sunday touched the dew.
It was tribute enough to sunup that it could brand even chaparral bushes look cute, Augustus thought, and he watched the process happily, knowing it would simply last a few minutes. The sun spread reddish-gold light through the shining bushes, amidst which a few goats wandered, bleating. Even when the lord's day rose above the low bluffs to the southward, a layer of low-cal lingered for a chip at the level of the chaparral, as if independent of its source. The the sun lifted clear, like an immense coin. The dew speedily died, and the light that filled the bushes like red dirt dispersed, leaving articulate, slightly blue air.
It was skilful reading light by then, so Augustus applied himself for a few minutes to the Prophets. He was not overly religious, only he did consider himself a off-white prophet and liked to study the styles of his predecessors. They were mostly as well long-winded, in his view, and he fabricated no attempt to read them poetry for poesy—he just had a look here and there, while the biscuits were browning."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Pigeon

"A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't desire one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae"
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"At times he felt that he had near rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was just going to be painful?"
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"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 similar weeks, and loves would pass too, or else abound sour."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"I figured out something, Lorie," he said. "I figured out why you and me get forth so well. You know more than than y'all say and I say more than than I know. That means we're a perfect friction match, as long as we don't hang around one another more than than an hour at a stretch."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"Who asked them dern pigs?" he said. "I approximate they tracked us," Augustus said. "They're enterprising pigs."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Pigeon

"I don't encounter how being married could exist whatsoever worse than listening to you talk for 20 years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

"I see you're in a hurry to get someplace. Information technology's a great error to hurry." "Why?" Joe asked, puzzled by almost everything the traveler said. "Considering the grave's our destination," Mr. Sedgwick said. "Those who hurry normally get to it quicker than those who accept their fourth dimension."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Pigeon

"Yous don't expect potent enough to problem nobody around hither.... We grow our ain troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we own't already used to."
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

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