“The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.”

—  Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

Variant: It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added
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American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter 1936

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