Larry McMurtry Quotes

“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 soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”

“The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.”

“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 day I'd be a lot happier.”

“It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.”

“Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.”

“We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know," Mel said. "People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.”

“A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.”

“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”

“The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”

“Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.”

“I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.”

“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 them over the low feelings that came to all men.”

“Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.”

“If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.”

“I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.”

“Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.”

“Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.”

“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 away.”

“Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.”

“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters”

“From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.”

“It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.”

“"Pat, did they get you for the embezzling?" Harmony asked.
"That, and the fact that I got stopped with a few pills in my car," Pat said. "Seventeen thousand pills, to be exact".”