The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings — crowded, active, thick. [...] But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow’s horizons are vague and its demands are few.
Larry McMurtry (b. 1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller, screenwriter
Some Can Whistle, pt. 4, ch. 9 (1989)
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