A review by ben_mitchinson
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
not a review just quotes
> **"*You still seeing the Barnett girl? He shook his head. She quit you or did you quit her? I don't know. That means she quit you. Yeah***
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> *"I could still be born. I might look different or somethin. If God wanted me to be born I'd be born"*
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> "*A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done."*
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> "*John Grady didn't answer. He was still looking down the road where she'd gone. There was nothing there to see but he kept looking anyway."*
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> **"*She probably dates guys got their own airplanes let alone cars. You're probably right. I'm glad to hear you say it. It dont help nothin though, does it."***
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> **"*She smiled at him a pitying smile and there was no pity in it."***
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> "*Do you think they mean anything? (dreams) She looked surprised. Oh yes, she said. Dont you? Well. I dont know. They're in your head. She smiled again. I suppose I dont consider that to be the condemnation you do."*
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> "*A woman's reputation is all she has"*
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> "*I'll do anything you say."*
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> **"...*The lushness of her black hair falling over him and no caution to her at all. Saying I dont care I dont care."***
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> "*Their parents sent them for these ideas no? And they went there and received them. Yet when they returned and opened their valises, so to speak, no two contained the same thing."*
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> "*He sat on his bunk in the dark with his pillow in his two arms and he leaned his face into and drank in her scent and tried to refashion in his mind her self and voice."*
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> **"*If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change"***
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> **"***It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change.**"***
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> "*This horseman was very young and he rode a wonderful horse but among his fears was the fear that God would kill him with lightning and because of this fear he lost his horse in the desert.*"
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> "*...What he saw in his dream was that the order in the horse's heart was more durable for it was written in a place where no rain could erase it.*"
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> "*... He said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.*"
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> **"*You still seeing the Barnett girl? He shook his head. She quit you or did you quit her? I don't know. That means she quit you. Yeah***
>
> *"I could still be born. I might look different or somethin. If God wanted me to be born I'd be born"*
>
> "*A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done."*
>
> "*John Grady didn't answer. He was still looking down the road where she'd gone. There was nothing there to see but he kept looking anyway."*
>
> **"*She probably dates guys got their own airplanes let alone cars. You're probably right. I'm glad to hear you say it. It dont help nothin though, does it."***
>
> **"*She smiled at him a pitying smile and there was no pity in it."***
>
> "*Do you think they mean anything? (dreams) She looked surprised. Oh yes, she said. Dont you? Well. I dont know. They're in your head. She smiled again. I suppose I dont consider that to be the condemnation you do."*
>
> "*A woman's reputation is all she has"*
>
> "*I'll do anything you say."*
>
> **"...*The lushness of her black hair falling over him and no caution to her at all. Saying I dont care I dont care."***
>
> "*Their parents sent them for these ideas no? And they went there and received them. Yet when they returned and opened their valises, so to speak, no two contained the same thing."*
>
> "*He sat on his bunk in the dark with his pillow in his two arms and he leaned his face into and drank in her scent and tried to refashion in his mind her self and voice."*
>
> **"*If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to the hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change"***
>
> **"***It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change.**"***
>
> "*This horseman was very young and he rode a wonderful horse but among his fears was the fear that God would kill him with lightning and because of this fear he lost his horse in the desert.*"
>
> "*...What he saw in his dream was that the order in the horse's heart was more durable for it was written in a place where no rain could erase it.*"
>
> "*... He said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.*"
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