“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae”

— Larry McMurtry , Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

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American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter 1936

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