“It's very peculiar, the situations life presents one with, Father Geoff reflected.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
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… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“He had ridden his horse into the saloon on a dare from a whore – his practice was always to accept dares;… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“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… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself had become old. Even… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
“The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
“Ride with an outlaw, die with him," he added. "I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
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… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
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… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
“Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
“. . . he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that,… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
“I figured out something, Lorie,” he said. “I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than you say… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share
