I don’t know, Goyeto said. This is not a very strong sun.
Was necessary to ignore most of those Gus made or else you got bogged down in useless conversation.
There was no degree of competence that would assure anyone of survival, and no scale that would tell a commander which man would live and which man would die.
Looking at her, though, was like looking at the hills. The hills stayed as they were. You could go to them, if you had the means, but they extended no greeting.
It’s a fine world, though rich in hardships at times, Augustus said.
Don’t be reviling yourself. None of us is such fine judges of what to do.
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus Gus McCrae
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
Woman’s love is like the morning dew, it’s just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose.
They might last another year or two,
Young things mainly belong to themselves. How they grow up depends on who gets attached to them.
Today the sight that discourages book people most is to walk into a public library and see computers where books used to be. In many cases not even the librarians want books to be there. What consumer...
They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.
It was a quiet day in Tombstone.
It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that one loses affection for the major characters because they suck off so much energ...
If you’re planning on dying today I hope you dig your grave first.
I suppose she's just dying of living--that's the one infection that strikes us all down, sooner or later.
I still think we ought to just hire the town and take it with us. Then we’d have a good barkeep and someone to play the pianer.
I don’t know anything about babies, he said. No, and you’ve never lived any place but Arkansas, Clara said. But you ain’t stupid and you ain’t nailed down. You can live other places and you can learn...
How about a kiss?Are you man enough to try? she asked.