Larry McMurtry Quotes
If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.
I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.
He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.
Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.
Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?
It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were into an argument, and they were telling you what was going to happen.
It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.
She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.
It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.
It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.
It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.
He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.
You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.
It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.
They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.
Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.
Who asked them dern pigs?” he said. “I guess they tracked us, ” Augustus said. “They’re enterprising pigs.
But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.
Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.
At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?
Jake, you’re a dern grasshopper, ” Augustus said. “You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you’re talking California.
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.
You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae
Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.
A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.
How about a kiss?”“Are you man enough to try?” she asked.
The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.
