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Category: Larry McMurtry

She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.

beautiful, beautiful-body, beautiful-face, face, pretty, woman

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

crime, morality, sedgwick

It’s just that it’s fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

always, fear, fearsome, thinking, woman

If we know anything about man, it’s that he’s not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.

feelings, felt, he-knew, his-life, life, love, love-of-his-life, meant-the-most, missed, one-person, only-love, women

It’s funny, leaving a place, ain’t it?” he said. “You never do know when you’ll get back.

adventure, funny-idea, getting-back, going-somewhere, home, journey, leave, leaving, leaving-a-place, missed, never-know, ride, thought, thought-to-ponder, traveling

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

keep, past, past-and-present, present, time

It was something he had always done – moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

alone, always, apart, loner, moved-apart, self, think, think-things, thinking, time, time-with-hisself

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

alone, apart, like, loner, self

Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

hud, mcmurtry, movies, west, westerns

But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.

different, english

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one’s youth.