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Jim, remember the movie Tombstone? Remember what Doc Holliday says to Wyatt Earp when Doc is dying. You and I saw that movie together, remember? Doc says to Wyatt: ‘There’s no such thing as normal life, Wyatt. There’s just life.
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Anne Rice (The Wolves of Midwinter (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #2))
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Before the end of the day there will take place what became known as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral … All Ike Clanton needed, and had really been seeking all morning, was an audience. He launched into a soliloquy: “You fellows haven’t given me any show at all. You’ve treated me like a dog. Fight is my racket, and all I want is four feet of ground. If you fellows had been a second later, I would have furnished a coroner’s inquest for the town. I will get even with all of you for this. If I had a six-shooter now, I would make a fight with all of you.
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Tom Clavin (Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen))
W. B. (Bat) Masterson (Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and Others)
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When the time came for Luke Short to pass out of this life—to render up the ghost as it were—he was able to lie down in bed in a home that was his own
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W. B. (Bat) Masterson (Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and Others)