“What good do you think it does to waller all over a horse thataway? said Rawlins.
I dont know, said John Grady. I aint a horse.”

—  Cormac McCarthy , book All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses (1992)

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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