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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

by Larry McMurtry

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“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“Hitler presented himself as a man of moderation and peace, as someone devoted to the German people, and as someone who publicly claimed to be following “God’s will.” He promised to lead Germany out of the economic hell into which it had fallen, and to lift the deep shame that Germans felt at having lost the First World War.”
― Eric Metaxas, Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness

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“Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend and my trusted confidant and my passionate lover to boot, and we live twice as long. So we come to one person, and we basically are asking them to give us what once an entire village used to provide: Give me belonging, give me identity, give me continuity, but give me transcendence and mystery and awe all in one. Give me comfort, give me edge. Give me novelty, give me familiarity. Give me predictability, give me surprise. And we think it’s a given, and toys and lingerie are going to save us with that.6”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance: An Investigation

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