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December 13, 2022
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December 13, 2022
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December 16, 2022
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1.5%
"cowgirls in tight pink trousers, and nervous businessmen on palominos"
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12
December 25, 2022
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3.13%
"If my fair white body is going to be sacrificed to your ambition the least you could do is take me to Europe."
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25
December 26, 2022
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3.75%
"She would have liked another fifty miles to drive - the road all to herself and the wind blowing her hair and cooling her arms."
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30
December 28, 2022
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4.13%
"Her mouth moved on his, fresh and uncertain, trying to kiss the kiss that would make him sure of her."
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33
December 30, 2022
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5.75%
"... in the gray early light she could see, when she bent over him, the line of light blond whiskers on his jaw, the same color as the light hairs on his chest."
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46
January 1, 2023
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6.5%
"With a bright woody good-smelling kitchen with a window that looked out on a slope and a deep sky, her cooking might even improve, though probably not."
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52
January 2, 2023
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8.0%
"Patsy giggled, delighted with him. He was not only hopelessly hopeless but hopelessly genuine too."
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January 4, 2023
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10.0%
"He loved the thought of being able to live on next to nothing - on the bare essentials. In his imagination he often stripped his life of all extras, all luxuries, everything wasteful."
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80
January 4, 2023
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10.25%
"His life, so far as she could tell, was one great interlocking structure of fantasies involving himself."
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January 4, 2023
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12.25%
"Her Levi's were old, and so tight that he simply turned them wrong side out as he peeled them off."
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January 5, 2023
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13.25%
"And when he had undone the slip so she could remove it he put his arms around her, his hands on her bosom, and held her against him for a minute. They swayed a little from side to side. It made her feel nicely wanted, nicely touched."
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106
January 6, 2023
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16.5%
"A familiar restlessness hit her, a desire to be somewhere else, somewhere she had never been."
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132
January 7, 2023
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18.25%
"The little cafe where they ate was so unexpectedly jolly that they couldn't stay low-spirited. It was bright and noisy and paneled in pine. The kitchen threw out good smells, and the place was packed."
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January 19, 2023
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23.0%
"It seemed to her a pity he did not know how to talk, for if they could have talked, their vaguely sympathetic feeling for each other might have grown or shrunk or somehow taken shape. As it was, it had remained formless."
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184
January 19, 2023
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23.13%
"His voice was calm and quite firm, as if its tone had a long ago been purified by whatever disappointment, loneliness, or grief he had felt in that place, on the high-roofed old porch, alone with the night breeze and the dark pastures around."
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185
January 23, 2023
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25.87%
"There's no basis for friendship like a mutual dislike of one another's husbands, is there?"
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207
January 24, 2023
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27.38%
"Nothing was much pleasanter than company, particularly company that was part old and part new."
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219
February 3, 2023
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36.38%
"I'm at a point in my life where I don't care ever to beat around another goddamn bush."
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291
February 14, 2023
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44.5%
"She realized she wanted to touch him and had been trying to make her letter the equivalent of a touch."
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356
February 15, 2023
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52.38%
""I hope you like salty things," she said. "I'm always crying.""
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419
February 17, 2023
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53.25%
"In my imagination, Sonny Shanks is a more greasy Matthew McConaughey. I'm really beginning to hate them both, and I want Eleanor to shank 'im.
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426
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February 17, 2023
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53.75%
"Eleanor's arms were shaking. "I'm forty-four," she said. "Forty-four. And I've wasted fifteen good years letting you push me around, just because you got to me at the right time, in the right way.""
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430
February 26, 2023
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62.75%
"He looked at her constantly, and yet, she began to realize, he was blind to her. His vision of her was not her at all."
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502
March 2, 2023
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64.5%
"She would have welcomed the fever, but it didn't come. Her skin might have been dead, her nerves disconnected."
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516
March 4, 2023
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69.5%
"She wanted him to be unique and irreplaceable, the only man she could care about, someone who could hold her. Any yet the moment she thought it she knew it wouldn’t be so."
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556
March 12, 2023
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75.5%
"Wanting to be close so badly, they missed it, passed it somewhere, and began to move toward sex, hoping it would make them close."
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604
March 13, 2023
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77.63%
""Your Rorschach was frankly appalling," [the doctor] told Jim immediately. You saw fifty-two vaginas.""
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621
April 12, 2023
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Dec 14, 2022 11:21AM
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For whatever reason, that scene, in the very beginning, of Patsy eating that melting candy bar has stayed with me. McMurtry always seemed to have a knack at capturing such moments.
Julie - Only 33 pages into this one, I’m leaning toward agreeance!
Amen, Brother McMurtry!
A graphic review! I mean we have had graphic reviews from you, but not this kind of graphic. Brava!
Oh, happy day!! Oh, happy day!!
Those images! 😍 and Leonard Cohen! 😍😍 I just purchsed a copy of the flame 🙏🏻😓
Bonnie, Julie & Rebecca: Thank you, ladies! And Rebecca, I heart Leonard Cohen ~ so cool to hear you’re a fan, too 🙌
