Quotes by Larry McMurtry

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

“It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.”

“It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were into an argument, and they were telling you what was going to happen.”

“It's happiness to see you.”

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

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

“The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.”

“How about a kiss?”“Are you man enough to try?” she asked.”

“It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.”

“A sleeping man would miss the best of the evening, and the moonrise as well.”

“A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.”

“Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.”

“You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae”

“Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.”

“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 could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry...”