“Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Streets of Laredo
“This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call)”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Streets of Laredo
“She didn’t know what to do with the severed leg. She had cut it off, but she didn’t want to touch it or even look at it.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Streets of Laredo
“Not too many men, in his experience, had achieved a great thing, even one. Very few ever achieved more than one, he knew.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Streets of Laredo
“Still, he was a salaried man. Even though Katie, who had been a good wife, was dead, he was not his own master.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Streets of Laredo
“He was just a husband and a salaried man. Choice didn’t play any part in his life.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Streets of Laredo
“There was no degree of competence that would assure anyone of survival, and no scale that would tell a commander which man would live and which man would die.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Streets of Laredo
“It seemed to him the highest principle, loyalty. He preferred it to honor. He had never been exactly sure what men meant when they spoke of their honor, though it had been a popular word during the time of the War. He was sure, though, what he meant when he spoke of loyalty. A man didn’t desert his comrades, his troop, his leader. If he did he was, in Call’s book, worthless.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Streets of Laredo
Larry McMurtry
Born place: in Wichita Falls, Texas, The United States
Born date June 3, 1936
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“The Little Ship Have your forgotten the ship love I made as a childish toy, When you were a little girl love, And I was a little boy? Ah! never in all the fleet love Such a beautiful ship was seen, For the sides were painted blue love And the deck was yellow and green. I carved a wonderful mast love From my Father’s Sunday stick, You cut up your one good dress love That the sail should be of silk. And I launched it on the pond love And I called it after you, And for the want of the bottle of wine love We christened it with the dew. And we put your doll on board love With a cargo of chocolate cream, But the little ship struck on a cork love And the doll went down with a scream! It is forty years since then love And your hair is silver grey, And we sit in our old armchairs love And we watch our children play. And I have a wooden leg love And the title of K. C. B. For bringing Her Majesty’s Fleet love Over the stormy sea. But I’ve never forgotten the ship love I made as a childish toy When you were a little girl love And I was a sailor boy.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“There are monsters among us. There always have been and there always will be. I’ve known that ever since I can remember, just like i’ve always known I was one.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Nightlife
“I am old now. So old. My sight fades, my muscles are weak, my piss dribbles, my bones ache, and I sit in the sun and fall asleep to wake tired.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Sword Song
“The hall’s door was framed by a pair of vast curved bones that had come from some sea monster.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Burning Land
“She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.”
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