Larry McMurtry

“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.”

— Larry McMurtry

“The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.”

— Larry McMurtry

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

— Larry McMurtry

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

— Larry McMurtry

“Ride with an outlaw, die with him," he added. "I admit it's a harsh code. But you rode on the other side…

— Larry McMurtry

WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just…

— Larry McMurtry

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out…

— Larry McMurtry

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

— Larry McMurtry

“Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in the town. It was a bad feeling, and it usually came…

— Larry McMurtry

“. . . he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became…

— Larry McMurtry

It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.

— Larry McMurtry

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

— Larry McMurtry

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

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

— Larry McMurtry

“I figured out something, Lorie,” he said. “I figured out why you and me get along so well. You know more than…

— Larry McMurtry

“Things are just put together wrong. There’s so much shit in the world a man’s gonna get in it sooner or later,…

— Larry McMurtry

The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form…

— Larry McMurtry

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

— Larry McMurtry

“No half measures,” he muttered several times. It was his personal motto; he intended to have it latinised and put on a…

— Larry McMurtry

Death and worse happened on the plains.

— Larry McMurtry

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age…

— Larry McMurtry

“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

“Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself had become old. Even…

— Larry McMurtry

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

— Larry McMurtry

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

— Larry McMurtry