All Larry McMurtry Quotes
- It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae Ain T
- Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps. Art
- The older the violin, the sweeter the music. Aging
- Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak. Across
- Uva uvum vivendo varia fit Fit
- If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped. Likes
- Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then,… Always Found
- I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern… Augustus
- Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess. Guess
- If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like… Bed
- Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and… Ability
- The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight. Boneyard
- 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… Alike
- 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 around… Around Looking
- He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they… All
- Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years… Charity
- I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call All
- You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by… Age
- -she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men. Became
- There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes. Alone
- Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime. Bartender
- I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode… Behavior
- It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times. Fine
- Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do. All
- I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you… Avoid