“As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.”

— Charles Portis , book True Grit

Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 5, p. 78 : thoughts of 'Mattie Ross'

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American actor 1933

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