Top 100 Craig Johnson Quotes
#1. Some fires can't bear to dampen and can provide heat even from the distance of time. As
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#2. Rarely do you get those glimmers of unadulterated love and, if you're smart, you pack them away for darker days.
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#3. He had his mother's looks, his father's temper, and nobody's brains.
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#5. stood at the door zipping, buttoning, fastening; it's what people in Wyoming do before they go outside in late December.
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#6. Don't care how big they are, boys; they can't do anything if you get 'em up off the ground.
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#7. I've seen men ruined by drink, drugs and dodge pickup trucks, but this is the first time I've seen someone ruined by softcore porn ...
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#8. Sometimes I get to where I feel like I'm the only one getting it in the shorts in this life, you know?
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#9. Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.
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#10. We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that illusionary magic circle is broken, it can never be completely repaired, and it is not stronger at the break.
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#11. He mulled that over. "Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em."
I reached over and took his coffee away from him. "Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times." I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. "Ain't it grand?
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#13. Reports of missing persons have increased sixfold in the last twenty-five years, from roughly 150,000 in 1980 to 900,000 this year . . . More than 2,000 a day.
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#14. I thought about Vic being rich. She already had the fuck-you attitude; fuck-you money might be too much.
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#15. Little known fact: offensive tackles score higher on the Wonderlic than any other position.
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#16. There were clouds at the mountains, and the snow pack reflected the sour-lemon sun into one of the most beautiful and perverse sunsets I had ever seen. The clouds were dappled like the hindquarters of an Appaloosa colt, and the beauty kicked just as hard.
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#17. Walt Longmire: I punched him in the fist with my nose, but I think he'll live.
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#18. I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.
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#19. You know the difference between an asshole and an anus?" He spoke from the side of his mouth. "What's that?" "An anus can't say 'that went well.
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#20. We are finite beings; how can we understand the infinite?
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#22. In my limited experience, women dreaded male statements that ended with "then you've got another think coming." It usually meant there was a lot more coming, but in this case there wasn't.
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#23. Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.
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#25. Contrary to popular belief, there aren't that many descriptions of hell in the Bible, and the majority of images most people carry around in their heads are from the fourteenth-century poem, which means that our contemporary view of hell is actually from the Middle Ages.
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#26. I saw me every day, and I wasn't so sure I was that fond of my company.
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#28. I was exercising by doing twelve-ounce curls in an attempt to balance my electrolytes.
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#29. I don't trust people who don't like animals. Hell, animals are the finest people I know.
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#30. nature hates a vacuum and strange things are drawn into empty places; sometimes oddities survive where nothing else can.
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#31. I couldn't help but remember the one at my parents' place after they had passed. I'd gone through their things and hadn't kept much, but when it came time for the auction I'd had a strong impulse to bid on everything like some museum curator attempting to keep the collection whole.
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#32. I think insanity runs in the family. Hell, it practically gallops.
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#33. If no one remembered them, were they ever really here?
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#34. I have gotten to the age where I try and let other people solve their own problems." "What age is that, anyway?
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#35. Maybe there really isn't any such thing as mortality; life simply wears us out with love.
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#36. My home skills were just short of negligible ... p. 13
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#38. Nobody makes an emotional bulletproof vest, so you just have to carry the shrapnel around with you.
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#39. I sometimes think that it's not our enemies that we resent in life, but rather friends we have who stood quietly by and did nothing.
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#40. I hung back at the curb, but it's hard to go unnoticed when you are a powder blue vintage convertible with a cowboy, an Indian, a brunette and a dog inside.
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#41. A beautiful, intelligent woman with a body like Salome and a mouth like a saltwater crocodile.
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#43. It's never about who's the fastest, strongest, toughest - it's always about who, when everyone else would pause, will commit.
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#44. Makes you feel better when you shoot people . . . You ought to try it sometime.
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#45. We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.
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#47. Cahoots being a legal term in Wyoming, see cahooting in the first degree, intent to cahoot, and so on.
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#48. I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.
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#49. Don't you think scars make better stories than tattoos?
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#50. The Moretti women had a smile like they were going to eat you ... and you'd like it.
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#51. I had warned her that lawyers shouldn't marry other lawyers, that it only led to imbecile paralegals.
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#52. Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy.
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#53. Started and made a move to fetch it, but I grabbed his collar, and we both watched as the black hat
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#54. Slogans about smoking: Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.
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#55. it wasn't that we had been so brave or bold, but that we'd simply traded one fear for another - afraid of what we were about to do for the fear of what we might not. "How
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#57. The smooth, steady movement of my actions raised a sliver of panic in the rational man who was abandoning me.
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#58. In a perfect cinematic world we would've captured the bad guys in spectacular fashion with explosions, car chases, and a parting kiss. She would've been played by Ava Gardner, and I would've been played by Robert Taylor.
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#59. Do what you're trained to do and you might get out of this alive. Make the right decisions as if your life depended on them, because it does. Hesitate and you hesitate forever.
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#60. After the war, Lucian had drifted back to Wyoming and then back to Absaroka County. He then drifted into being sheriff on the strength of his being the toughest piece of gristle in four states.
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#61. It would be nice if life weren't so messy, but that's just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but most of the time we just spend our existence cleaning up the messes we make - and sometimes the messes of other people, people about whom we care most in the world.
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#62. Seeing her again was like unearthing an emotional library card with a lot of overdues.
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#63. It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.
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#64. It's only pre-marital sex if you plan on getting married.
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#65. A butte is taller than it is wide, whereas a mesa, like this one, is wider than it is tall.
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#66. Look . . ." I dreaded female statements that started with "look." In my limited experience, there was nowhere to hide after they were made.
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#67. Last word from her was that Paris, half of Omar's money, and none of him was suiting her just fine." She
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#68. Tell her how much you love her; everything after that is small talk.
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#69. I've done some crazy things in my life, but asking women their age isn't one of them.
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#70. She was classic Wyoming, that indiscriminate age between thirty and a hundred where the women find a comfort for themselves and just settle in.
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#71. Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything.
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#72. Ain't nothing wrong with shootin' folks, long as the right ones get shot
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#73. I should protect and cherish the young, the old, and the infirm, because at some point I would be all of these things before my own journey ended.
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#74. The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.
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#75. Somewhere in the distance, the synchronic circles of our pasts had tripped a domino, and the steady whirr had grown till it now drowned with the roar of contingency
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#76. The door closed, and he was gone into the twilight of early evening like an afterthought.
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#77. Sons, they have their own plans, but a daughter or granddaughter, they will love you forever and take care of you in your old age.
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#79. Cop tricks pale in comparison with mother tricks.
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#80. You do have one prejudice though. I looked back at her again from under the brim of my hat. You don't care about the living as much as you do the dead.
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#83. I hung up, figuring that if this was the last three minutes of my life, I didn't want to spend them extraordinarily annoyed.
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#84. I flattered myself by thinking that, if faced with such a circumstance, I would respond within the letter of the law; but passion is a strange thing, a thing that warps and twists everything with which it comes in contact.
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#85. I thought about Maggie and how passion was a difficult thing to sustain, but that friendship had a pace that could go on forever.
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#86. Maybe he was what Lucian would have turned out to be if the old sheriff hadn't have lived in such interesting times. A couple of years in a Japanese prison camp might be just what Turk needed. But I didn't have a bridge over the river Kwai for him to build so we had to settle for Powder Junction.
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#88. Everybody in this county knows your flavor, Walt Longmire.
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#89. Kind of like the tree that falls in the forest when nobody's around? I mean, if nobody remembers the history, did it still happen?
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#90. Everything to do with women is foolish and, therefore, absolutely essential.
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#91. I sometimes forgot about how spiritual Henry was. I had been raised as a Methodist where the highest sacrament was the bake sale.
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#92. Thinking you're not in trouble and not being in trouble are two different things.
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#93. I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin
a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.
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#94. This is how it ends with everyone. You fall - you don't get back up.
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#95. His face remained immobile as he shut the door and walked back against the traffic. "No, they are not." Dog immediately jumped into the
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#96. Looking at the piles around us - they were like literary land mines just waiting to explode minds.
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#97. That was the beauty of horse stealing, though - you could always ride your stolen property.
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#98. When I hired him I told him two things: no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . ." "Amen to that, and the other?" "Never go after a man to arrest him unless you are certain you are legally right, but then arrest him or die.
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#99. All the important promises are about leaving or not leaving.
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