“…. A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They’re always more trouble than what they’re worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.”

—  Cormac McCarthy , book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses (1992)

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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