Elmer Kelton quotes
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“The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.”
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“He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.”
-- Elmer KeltonSource : Elmer Kelton (2016). “The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country: Two Classic Westerns”, p.169, Forge Books
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“A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.”
-- Elmer KeltonSource : Elmer Kelton (2007). “Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy”, p.104, Macmillan
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“Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the stories are true, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always gripping. I could hardly put the book down. . . .The writing is superb.”
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“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.”
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“The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.”
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Source : A.S.A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife”, p.240, Hachette UK
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