Big Pete

“The boy shot Wild Bill's horse at dusk, while Bill was off in the bushes to relieve himself”
― Pete Dexter, Deadwood

“You're afraid of smart women, aren't you?'
She had used this ploy before, having heard via the female bush telegraph that it was unanswerable. She was right though. I was leery of them. Art and Mike said taking an intellectual woman into your home was like taking in a baby raccoon. They were both amusing for a while but soon became randomly vicious and learned how to open the refrigerator.”
― Charles Portis, Gringos

“I was human, very human, and if in the days misspent
I have injured man or woman, it was done without intent.
If at times I blundered blindly — bitter heart and aching brow —
If I wrote a line unkindly — I am sorry for it now.”
― Henry Lawson

“Leon Hubbard died ten minutes into lunch break on the first Monday in May, on the construction site of the new one-storey trauma wing at Holy Redeemer Hospital in South Philadelphia. One way or the other, he was going to lose the job.”
― Pete Dexter, God's Pocket