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Larry McMurtry

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

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“The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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“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.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Variant: It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added
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“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.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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Larry McMurtry Quotes about love

“But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.”

Larry McMurtry

Source: Leaving Cheyenne

“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.”

Larry McMurtry

The Late Child (1995)

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

Larry McMurtry

Leaving Cheyenne (1963).

Larry McMurtry Quotes

“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae”

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

Larry McMurtry

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

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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

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“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.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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

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

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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

Larry McMurtry

Source: In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas

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

Larry McMurtry

“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.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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“The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

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“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.”

Larry McMurtry

Anything For Billy (1988).

“"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".”

Larry McMurtry

The Late Child (1995)

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