“What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.”

—  Cormac McCarthy, book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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