“It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them. — 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
“woman’s love is like the morning dew, it’s just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“If you mean Miss Austen, I don't find her particularly romantic," Tasmin declared. "Can't say that I care much about the marriage… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“You ought to take more chances," I said. "I took too many earlier," she said. "I'm sorry.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Love’s a terrible price to pay for company, ain’t it, Matty?” Caleb said. “I won’t pay it, myself. I’d rather do without… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle… — 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
