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… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“. . . 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 Image
Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
