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I'm tired of justice, ain't you?
— Larry McMurtry
There's nothing that sweetens the breath like a cedar toothpick, unless it's mint. And mint don't grow in these parts.
— Larry McMurtry
He wondered if all men felt such disappointment when thinking of themselves. He didn't know.
— Larry McMurtry
I needed a man," Call replied. "I was hoping he might turn out to be a fighter." "No, he's just a jailer," Billy said.
— Larry McMurtry
They respected only the strong men who could not be insulted without a price being paid in blood.
— Larry McMurtry
You are like me, a free man. The sky is your wife.
— Larry McMurtry
It was only the thought that Deets was still knowing him, somehow, that kept him from feeling totally alone.
— Larry McMurtry
The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters
— Larry McMurtry
His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To have to say things on paper seemed a terrible task, for it stirred the memories.
— Larry McMurtry
I ain't kin to nobody in this world. I don't want to be. I won't be.
— Larry McMurtry
Everyone who came to see him asked questions that were either stupid or impertinent. Better to see no one than to see fools.
— Larry McMurtry
It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added
— Larry McMurtry
I don't sing about myself. I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don't belong to me . . . They belong to those who hear them.
— Larry McMurtry
Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.
— Larry McMurtry
Such is the life and death of a good cowboy.
— Larry McMurtry
Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were.
— Larry McMurtry
I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot," Nellie said. "But bagpipers are pretty much my limit.
— Larry McMurtry
I sometimes think the sexual organs were put there to keep the human race humble," she said. "They've certainly kept me humble.
— Larry McMurtry
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
— Larry McMurtry
I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.
— Larry McMurtry
Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.
— Larry McMurtry
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.
— Larry McMurtry
passing insults back and forth, as if they were biscuits.
— Larry McMurtry
He gathers information that we can't see, and puts it together.
— Larry McMurtry
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
— Larry McMurtry
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
— Larry McMurtry
I miss Gus ... I get to expecting to hear him talk and he ain't here. My ears sort of get empty.
— Larry McMurtry
He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.
— Larry McMurtry
People got opinions, that's all they've got.
— Larry McMurtry
Is the girl all right?" "She's had an ordeal but she's young," Augustus said. "She won't forget it, but she might outlive it.
— Larry McMurtry
She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.
— Larry McMurtry
Now speech had left her; fear took its place.
— Larry McMurtry
He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.
— Larry McMurtry
Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity - they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits.
— Larry McMurtry
Jake, you're a dern grasshopper," Augustus said. "You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you're talking California.
— Larry McMurtry
Woodrow don't mention nothing he can keep from mentioning. You couldn't call him a mentioner.
— Larry McMurtry
Somewhere along the Rio Concho, he had stopped feeling that he lived in a world where ledgers mattered.
— Larry McMurtry
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. Augustus "Gus" McCrae — Larry McMurtry
I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.
— Larry McMurtry
Figure the reason you don't have much to say is you probably never met a man who liked to hear a woman talk.
— Larry McMurtry
No matter how well he worked. It was a little discouraging: the harder he tried to please the Captain, the less the Captain seemed to be pleased.
— Larry McMurtry
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.
— Larry McMurtry
His purpose was to get done what needed to be done, and what needed to be done was simple, if not easy.
— Larry McMurtry
Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?
— Larry McMurtry
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
Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales. Now we make records to promote tour dates. — James McMurtry
It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to," Clara said. "It's just a waste.
— Larry McMurtry
I don't claim to know much: cards, fucking, and dentistry about covers it, Doc said.
— Larry McMurtry
You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae
— Larry McMurtry
I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.
— Larry McMurtry
I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.
— Larry McMurtry
He might die, but at least he could fight first, and not simply pass his days shaking at the expectation of slaughter.
— Larry McMurtry
A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.
— Larry McMurtry
In the last year or two he had not only grown indifferent to company, he had begun to find it irritating.
— Larry McMurtry
I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.
— Larry McMurtry
Billy the Kid shooting all those people over in New Mexico has made gunfighting real popular with the public.
— Larry McMurtry
Her own folly amused her: she had once thought of herself as smart - but look at where she was.
— Larry McMurtry
She sighed. Men were a pain.
— Larry McMurtry
Wantin' takes too much time ... I'd rather be working.
— Larry McMurtry
He was annoyed with his mind - it would be a lot easier to do his task well if his mind would just behave and not keep making him scared.
— Larry McMurtry
I'm a fastidious bookman and have never liked reading books with library markings or other messy defects.
— Larry McMurtry
Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
— Larry McMurtry
It was a quiet day in Tombstone.
— Larry McMurtry
Life ain't for sissies, as Augustus might have said.
— Larry McMurtry
Losing weight. When we finish eating this horse I
— Larry McMurtry
I'd like to see you think the roof back on that barn," Call said.
— Larry McMurtry
I don't believe in protein," I said. "I think it's a myth, like vitamins. I don't believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it's all a myth.
— Larry McMurtry
She didn't know what to do with the severed leg. She had cut it off, but she didn't want to touch it or even look at it.
— Larry McMurtry
Alone. "A military unit is a fine thing when it works," he said. "But it usually don't work. A solitary feat of arms is better, if the foe is worthy.
— Larry McMurtry
Don't be trying to give back pain for pain ... You can't get even measures in business like this.
— Larry McMurtry
He decided not to shoot the tall stranger, mainly because he admired his soft felt hat.
— Larry McMurtry
Trees had been so common that it was a shock to ride out on the plains and discover that there was a part of earth where there weren't any.
— Larry McMurtry
The best to do with a death was to move on from it.
— Larry McMurtry
Well, boys," Long Bill said. "I guess here's where I quit rangering. It's rare sport, but it ain't quite safe.
— Larry McMurtry
It's happiness to see you.
— Larry McMurtry
all vessels leaked to some degree.
— Larry McMurtry
it seemed he had to be talking every waking minute as a means of holding his own fears in balance.
— Larry McMurtry
The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.
— Larry McMurtry
Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.
— Larry McMurtry
Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough,
— Larry McMurtry
