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A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus Gus McCrae

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Larry McMurtry
Age: 84 †
Born: 1936
Born: June 3
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
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The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.
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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.
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Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
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Death and worse happened on the plains.
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Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
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You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
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Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.
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Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
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It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
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