Quotes by Larry McMurtry

“One day Augustus asked Newt to ride along with him, much to Newts surprise. In the morning they saw a grizzly, but the bear was far upwind and didnt scent them. It was a beautiful dayno clouds in t...”

“The best to do with a death was to move on from it.”

“I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.”

“The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparra...”

“At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?”

“There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.”

“You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.”

“No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.”

“Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.”

“Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.”

“But the English are different, and they dont know how to be other than different.”

“Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.”

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

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

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

“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 wasn’t particularly old if you just counted years, the fact was years ...”

“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.”

“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.”