“The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“No half measures,” he muttered several times. It was his personal motto; he intended to have it latinised and put on a… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“It was inconsiderate, she thought, how blandly people mentioned the future in the sick rooms. Phrases like next summer were always popping… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Blue Duck could never avoid a moment of fear, when his father's eyes became the eyes of a snake. He choked off… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“I see you’re in a hurry to get someplace. It’s a great mistake to hurry.” “Why?” Joe asked, puzzled by almost everything… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“By the time the shade had reached the river, Augustus would have mellowed with the evening and be ready for some intelligent… — 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
