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The Last Picture Show
by Larry McMurtry
medium-paced
Favorite quotes:
”Oh, don’t be so mealymouthed,” Lois shouted, “Why am I even talking to you? I just thought if you slept with Duane a few times you’d find out there really isnMt anything magic about him, and have yourself some fun to boot. Maybe then you’d realize that pretty things and pretty people are what you like in life and we can send you to a good school where you’ll marry some good-looking kid with the wherewithal to give you a pleasant life.” - p. 42
“Sam, how’s the best way to get rich?” Duane asked.
“To be born rich,” Sam said. “That’s much the best way. Why?”
“I want to get that way. I want to get at least as rich as Lester Marlow.””Well, of course,” Sam said, buttering a cracker. “You’re really too young to know what’s good for you, though. Once you got rich you’d have to spend all your time staying rich, and that’s hard thankless work. I tried it a while and quit, myself. If I can keep ten dollars ahead of the bills I’ll be doin’ all right.” - p. 52
About the middle of the afternoon he began to feel like he had to do something. He had the feeling again, the feeling that he was the only person in town. He got his gloves and his football jacket and got in the pickup, meaning to go on out and pump his leases, but no sooner had he started than he got scared. The gray pastures and the distant brown ridges looked too empty. He himself felt too empty. As empty as he felt and as empty as the country looked it was too risky going out into it—he might be blown around for days like a broomweed in the wind.
He turned around and drove back past the sign, but stopped again. From the road the town looked raw, scraped by the wind, as empty as the country. It didn’t look like the town it had been when he was in high school, in the days of Sam the Lion. - p. 216-17
“To be born rich,” Sam said. “That’s much the best way. Why?”
“I want to get that way. I want to get at least as rich as Lester Marlow.””Well, of course,” Sam said, buttering a cracker. “You’re really too young to know what’s good for you, though. Once you got rich you’d have to spend all your time staying rich, and that’s hard thankless work. I tried it a while and quit, myself. If I can keep ten dollars ahead of the bills I’ll be doin’ all right.” - p. 52
He turned around and drove back past the sign, but stopped again. From the road the town looked raw, scraped by the wind, as empty as the country. It didn’t look like the town it had been when he was in high school, in the days of Sam the Lion. - p. 216-17