Larry McMurtry Quotes
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Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.
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It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
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Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.
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Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.
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I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call
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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
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-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
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The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
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You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae
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The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.
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Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
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They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.
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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
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I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.
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Nothing good ever comes without a price.
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Death and worse happened on the plains.
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Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.
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Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
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Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.
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The older the violin, the sweeter the music.
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... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.
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Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
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Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
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I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.
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People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.
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The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.
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