Billy-the-kid Quote by 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 long enough…

— 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 been crawling…

— 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 books from…

— 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 on him…

— Larry McMurtry

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

— 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