Lonesome Dove (TV Mini Series)
On the Trail (1989)
Robert Duvall: Augustus 'Gus' McCrae
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Quotes
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Augustus 'Gus' McCrae : If you want only one thing too much, it's likely to turn out a disappointment. Now the only healthy way to live, as I see it, is to learn to like all the little every day things.
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Augustus 'Gus' McCrae : You've got a long time to live. And you don't want this thing dragging you back.
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Augustus 'Gus' McCrae : [riding into San Antonio seeing hundreds of people] There's durn people makin' towns everywhere. And it's our fault, too.
Woodrow F. Call : Our fault?
Augustus 'Gus' McCrae : Well, we chased out the Indians, didn't we? Hung all the good bandits. 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?
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Woodrow F. Call : You're lucky they didn't through you in jail.
Augustus 'Gus' McCrae : Well, it ain't much of a crime whackin' a surely bartender. I guess they may have forgot us though.
Woodrow F. Call : Why wouldn't they forget us? We haven't been around here in years.
Augustus 'Gus' McCrae : No, the reason is we never got killed, that's why they forgot us.
Woodrow F. Call : That is a dang foolish thing to say.
Augustus 'Gus' McCrae : No it ain't. If a thousand Comanches had cornered us in a gutter somewhere and wiped us out, like the Soo just done Custer, why they'd remember us sure. Hell, they'd be writin' songs about us for a hindered years.
Woodrow F. Call : Now there weren't ever a thousand Comanches in the whole world, and you know it.
Augustus 'Gus' McCrae : Well that ain't the point, Woodrow!