Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Larry McMurtry - Page 2

... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the emotion and I had begun to suspect that home was less a place than an empty page.

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.

WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.

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 suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae