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“It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.”
“It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were into an argument, and they were telling you what was going to happen.”
“It's happiness to see you.”
“You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae”
“Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.”
“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...”
“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 th...”
“WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnakenot a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were havin...”
“For most of the hours of the dayand most of the months of the yearthe sun had the town trapped deep in dust, far out in the chaparral flats, a heaven for snakes and horned toads, roadrunners and st...”
“Who asked them dern pigs? he said. I guess they tracked us, Augustus said. Theyre enterprising pigs.”
“Jake, youre a dern grasshopper, Augustus said. You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today youre talking California.”
“One day Augustus asked Newt to ride along with him, much to Newts surprise. In the morning they saw a grizzly, but the bear was far upwind and didnt scent them. It was a beautiful dayno clouds in t...”
“The best to do with a death was to move on from it.”
“I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.”
“The eastern sky was red as coals 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 chaparra...”
“At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?”
“There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.”
