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Book: Lonesome Dove
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Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove
by far my most popular novel, and one that allows me to join the small company of "respectable" writers whose fiction deals with the American West: Cormac McCarthy, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Tom Lee and a handful of others,
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Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove
You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it," Augustus said. "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 _ Lonesome Dove
His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach.
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Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove
Of course, children were endless work. They came when you didn't want them and had needs you didn't always want to meet. Worst of all they died no matter how much you loved them. The death of her own had frozen the hope inside her harder than the wintery ground. Her hopes had frozen hard and she vowed to keep it that way, and yet she hadn't. The hopes thawed."
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Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove
There was a period when he wanted to go back, when it would have been nice to sit with Maggie a few minutes and watch her fiddle with her hair. But he chose the river, and his solitude, thinking that in time the feeling would pass, and best so: he would stop thinking about Maggie, she would stop thinking about him... But it didn't pass--all that passed were years.
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Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove
Worm was old; he was a man of silence. He could speak prophecy and make spells, but mostly he was quiet and alert, a pleasure to travel with.
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Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove
I haven't planned, very much," July said honestly. "Seems like every time I make a plan something happens to change it.
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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 like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.
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Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove
He and Augustus had discussed the question of leadership many times. "It ain't complicated," Augustus maintained. "Most men doubt their own abilities. You don't. It's no wonder they want to keep you around. It keeps them from having to worry about failure all the time.
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Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove
My grandmother is old," Famous Shoes said. "She may want to tell me a few more stories before she dies.
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Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove
Jake looked a little more sorrowful as he picked his teeth. "Kilt a dentist," he said. "A pure accident, but I kilt him."..."Well, I've always considered dentistry a dangerous profession," Augustus said. "Making a living by yanking people's teeth out is asking for trouble.
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Larry McMurtry _ Lonesome Dove
Augustus could just make out the snake, coiled in a corner, but decided not to shoot it; on a quiet spring evening in Lonesome Dove, a shot could cause complications. Everybody in town would hear it and conclude either that the Comanches were down from the plains or the Mexicans up from the river. If any of the customers of the Dry Bean, the town's one saloon, happened to be drunk or unhappy-which was very likely-they would probably run out into the street and shoot a Mexican or two, just to be on the safe side.
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