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From Some Can Whistle by Larry McMurty:

The rules of happiness are as strict as the rules of sorrow;

Indeed, perhaps more strict. The two states have different densities.

I've come to think.

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -

Crowded, active, thick - urban,

I would almost say.

But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks

And no boundaries; sorrows horizons are vague and

Its demands few.

Jeanie and I had not become strangers;

It was just that she lived in the city and

I lived on the plain.