Quotes by Larry McMurtry

“I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.”

“It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that one loses affection for the major characters because they suck off so much en...”

“It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.”

“The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped ...”

“They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.”

“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 again he would walk up on the wrong sid...”

“Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself had become old. Even if she wasnt particularly old if you just counted years, the fact was years w...”

“Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.”

“Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.”

“If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.”

“It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.”

“You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.”

“Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.”

“She sighed. Men were a pain.”

“The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.”

“He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.”

“It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.”

“She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.”

“He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.”

“Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.”