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Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
Death and worse happened on the plains.
Nothing good ever comes without a price.
Self-parody is the first portent of age.
Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.
The older the violin, the sweeter the music.
I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.
Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.
Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.
Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.
The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.
... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call
If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.
Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.
I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.
There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae
People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.
A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.
If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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
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.
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.