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favorite Lonesome Dove line??

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anscag07
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2:52p, 4/16/13
OK I know the movie is full of them but what would be your favorite?

I think mine is when the sand storm is coming:

Gus: Well Woodrow, this is where we find out if we was meant to be cowboys I reckon!

Woodrow: I reckon.

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RoseRichAg01
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2:56p, 4/16/13
I'm misquoting, but my favorite is Gus saying "Just once, I'd like to shoot at an educated man." In response to the Latin quote on the sign.
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harge57
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3:02p, 4/16/13
After Woodrow nearly kills the man for whipping Newt he turns to the crowd and says "I don't like rude behavior in a man, I won't tolerate it"

After Deets dies... "I don't want to begin to think about all the things we should have done for this great man"

Gus dying... "It's been quite a party, ain't it.
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AgEng06
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3:08p, 4/16/13
Like you said, there are so many memorable quotes... so I'll just post one that hasn't been mentioned:

quote:
Woodrow: "You wanna think somethin', why don't you think that roof back up on that barn, 'stead of sittin in the shade all the time?"
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3:08p, 4/16/13
The whole damn thing. I've watched the entire thing 4 times on this deployment. And I probably will again.
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3:14p, 4/16/13
A man who won't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough
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Dirty-8-thirty Ag
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3:15p, 4/16/13
Woodrow: I never knew you to get excited about much, except biscuits.

Gus: Maybe.

Woodrow: And *****s! (Hoors)

Gus: I reckon them too.

[This message has been edited by Dirty-8-thirty Ag (edited 4/16/2013 2:15p).]
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3:26p, 4/16/13
quote:
Well I was, too young and pretty and the hoars wouldn't let me alone
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3:28p, 4/16/13
quote:
Jake liked to joke. He didn't like to work. I have exactly those same failings myself.
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3:29p, 4/16/13
Po Campo--My wife is in hell, where I sent her. She could make good biscuits, but her behavior was terrible.

Love that line.
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3:37p, 4/16/13
Gus: Lorie darlin', life in San Francisco, you see, is still just life. If you want any one thing too badly, it's likely to turn out to be a disappointment.

The only healthy way to live life is to learn to like all the little everyday things, like a sip of good whiskey in the evening, a soft bed, a glass of buttermilk, or a feisty gentleman like myself.
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3:40p, 4/16/13
Gus: its a bit early in the morning to go wigglin' your bean ain't it Jake?
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3:41p, 4/16/13
"A bit early in the day to go wigglin your bean ain't it Jake?"

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3:42p, 4/16/13
Dang it!
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3:43p, 4/16/13
He ain't one to quit on a garment just 'cause it's got a little age
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4:09p, 4/16/13
"I'd like to see the herd you & Jake could gather. A herd of wh*ores...maybe."

Woodrow F. Call to Augustus McCrae

[This message has been edited by CE Lounge Lizzard (edited 4/16/2013 3:13p).]
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4:14p, 4/16/13
"It ain't dyin' I'm talking about Woodrow. It's livin!"
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AgEng06
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4:16p, 4/16/13
quote:
"It ain't dyin' I'm talking about Woodrow. It's livin!"

I can't believe it took this long for this one... and I can't believe I forgot it earlier.
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4:18p, 4/16/13
quote:
wanna poke


It annoys my wife though.
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4:35p, 4/16/13
quote:
"It ain't dyin' I'm talking about Woodrow. It's livin!"


I had a friend pass away 2 weeks ago due to cancer (only 31 y.o.), and another one of our friends (his best friend) gave the eulogy. In it, he talked about this scene, and then went on to say this line multiple times in the middle of sharing stories of how our friend had indeed lived life to the fullest.

Very moving eulogy, really the best I have ever heard.

[This message has been edited by BurrOak (edited 4/16/2013 3:44p).]
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4:43p, 4/16/13
Money Well Spent Jake...Both Times
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4:52p, 4/16/13
quote:
"A bit early in the day to go wigglin your bean ain't it Jake?"


or

quote:
It ain't dying I'm talkin' about Woodrow, it's LIVING!"
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5:19p, 4/16/13
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096639/trivia?tab=qt
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5:19p, 4/16/13
"Did it ever occur to you that everything we done was a mistake? You and me done our work too well, Woodrow. Hell, we killed off all the people that made this country interesting to begin with, didn't we?"




"There's nothing better than riding a fine horse into new country."
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cledus6150
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5:21p, 4/16/13
My favorite quote mainly because my dad says it all the time and i believe it. From Woodrow to Newt "while handing him his pistol": It is better to have that and not need it, then to need it and not have it.
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anscag07
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5:35p, 4/16/13
Another one of my top ones is Gus reading Deets' headstone.
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6:09p, 4/16/13
You know that's a real head stone?

http://amarillo.com/stories/053099/new_LO0444.001.shtml

quote:
Served with me four years on the Goodnight-Loving Trail, never shirked a duty or disobeyed an order, rode with me in many stampedes, participated in three engagements with Comanches. Splendid behavior.
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6:17p, 4/16/13
There are plenty of real names smattered into Lonesome Dove as well. I'm sure Larry McMurtry got a lot of ideas from early Ranger accounts, and I can almost guarantee you he used Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas as a research tool to flesh out his characters.
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6:46p, 4/16/13
2 of them:
As Gus is leaving with Pea Eye: "don't let the Indians get you while we're gone" then Jasper says" always kidding around ain't you ,Gus". Then Gus replies " who's kiddin?'"


And when Gus gets out of the river to go track Blue Duck "hell, Woodrow, don't I look ready?"

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6:47p, 4/16/13
Oh and "money well spent......both times" said by Gus when referring to the horse Jake bought for Lori.
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7:03p, 4/16/13
"Laurie Darlin'"

Before Gus rides away from Clair's place in Nebraska.
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8:28p, 4/16/13
quote:
A man who won't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough


+1
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8:38p, 4/16/13
Still one of the best books I ever read...... won't watch the .tv series thought
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8:45p, 4/16/13
"I don't like rude behavior in a man... won't tolerate it"

Maybe its the scene that makes this one so great...
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Thunder18
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8:49p, 4/16/13
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Still one of the best books I ever read...... won't watch the .tv series thought


While I agree the book itself is excellent, you are really doing yourself a disservice not watching the mini-series...it has some of the BEST performances by Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones and keeps almost entirely to the same storyline of the books.
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