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Book: The Last Picture Show
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Larry McMurtry _ The Last Picture Show
The reason I'm so crazy is because nobody cares anything about me. I don't guess there's anybody I care much about, either. It's my own fault, though - I haven't had the guts to try and do anything about it.
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Larry McMurtry _ The Last Picture Show
He was two or three steps away from her and for a moment they did not know how to get to one another.
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Larry McMurtry _ The Last Picture Show
that evening: she was going to a country club dance with Lester Marlow. "She wasn't sheddin' no tears over the telephone," Duane said bitterly. "She may be getting to like country club dances, that's what worries me." He was in such a terrible mood that the pool game wasn't much fun. Jerry Framingham, a friend of theirs who drove a cattle truck, was shooting with them; he had to truck a load of yearlings to Fort Worth that night and asked them to ride along with him, since neither of them had dates. "We might as well," Duane said. "Be better than loafin' around here." Sonny was agreeable. While Jerry went out in the country to pick up his load he and Duane walked over to the café to have supper. Sam the Lion was there, waiting for
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Larry McMurtry _ The Last Picture Show
Do you know what it means to be heartbroken? It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly.
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Larry McMurtry _ The Last Picture Show
Why hell yes, Joe Bob! A cripple can always get himself a wooden leg, or a glass eye, or a metal hook for a hand, or any of that mess -- but there ain't no known substitute for a big dick. I guess you is out of luck!
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Larry McMurtry _ The Last Picture Show
Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him in the mornings early, when the streets were completely empty, the way they were one Saturday morning in late November.
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Larry McMurtry _ The Last Picture Show
You have to remember that I've been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you've been lonely long enough you don't realize you're cold, but you are... I don't know, maybe at the center of me there's some ice that never will melt, maybe it's just been there too long. But you mustn't worry. You didn't put it there.
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Larry McMurtry _ The Last Picture Show
Is growin' up always miserable?" Sonny asked. "Nobody seems to enjoy it much." "Oh, it ain't necessarily misearble," Sam replied. "About eighty percent of the time, I guess." They were silent again, Sam the Lion thinking of the lovely, spritely girl he had once led into the water, right there, where they were sitting. "We ought to go to a real fishin' tank next year," Sam said finally. "It don't do to think about things like that too much. If she were here now I'd probably be crazy again in about five minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?" A half-hour later, when they had gathered up the gear and were on the way to town, he answered his own question. "It ain't really, " he said. "Being crazy about a woman like her's always the right thing to do. Being a decrepit old bag of bones is what's ridiculous.
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Larry McMurtry _ The Last Picture Show
Do you know what it means to be heartbroken?...It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly.
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