Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him,… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about. — 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
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
“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
