Quotes from work

Lonesome Dove

“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”

“The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.”

“It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.”

“I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.”

“Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.”

“I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.”

“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”

“I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.”

“He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.”

“Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.”

“The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”

“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters”

“Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.”

“If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.”

“From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.”

“Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.”

“I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.”