Larry McMurtryI'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice i… ▶351LifeReadingSadness
Larry McMurtryI'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… ▶341Reading
Larry McMurtryNobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. She just run off with herself, I guess. ✨ Larry McMurtry (2010). Lonesome Dove: A Novel, p.254, Simon and Schuster353Reading
Larry McMurtryNo 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. ✨ Larry McMu… ▶366Humanity
Larry McMurtryUva uvum vivendo varia fit344Hope
Larry McMurtryPeople would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about. ✨ Larry McMurtry (2010). The Late Child: A Novel, p.54, Simon and Schuster344HumanityLoveReading
Larry McMurtryYou 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 McCrae367Love
Larry McMurtryIncompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.356Humanity
Larry McMurtryThough 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 u… ▶379LifeReflectionTime
Larry McMurtryIt 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 McCrae324DeathLife
Larry McMurtryI 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.346Life
Larry McMurtryThe older the violin, the sweeter the music. ✨ Larry McMurtry (2010). Lonesome Dove: A Novel, p.123, Simon and Schuster281Reading
Larry McMurtryA bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them. ✨ Larry McMurtry (2008). Books: A Memoir, p.38, Simon and Schuster314LoveReading
Larry McMurtryIf we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted. ✨ La… ▶336HumorReflection
Larry McMurtryFrom him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness. ✨ Larry McMurtry (2010). Lonesome Dove: A Novel, p.428, Simon and Schuster282Reading
Larry McMurtryThere isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.348Thought
Larry McMurtryTrue maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it272Truth
Larry McMurtryTexas is rich in unredeemed dreams ✨ Larry McMurtry (1968). In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas : with a New Preface, Simon & Schuster3410Philosophy
Larry McMurtryLive through it, Call said. That's all we can do. ✨ Larry McMurtry (2010). The Lonesome Dove Series, p.2473, Simon and Schuster3110Reflection
Larry McMurtryI suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call221Reading
Larry McMurtryI never met a soul in this world as normal as me. ✨ Larry McMurtry (2010). Lonesome Dove: A Novel, p.479, Simon and Schuster266Reading
Larry McMurtryMaybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps. ✨ Larry McMurtry (2010). Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections o… ▶277ReflectionSadness
Larry McMurtryOccasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would … ▶233LifeLoveReading
Larry McMurtryOnly a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak. ✨ Larry McMurtry (1983). In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas278Time
Larry McMurtryI 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.268Reading
Larry McMurtryA man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus Gus McCrae224Life
Larry McMurtryIf 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. 257Reading
Larry McMurtryCall listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened … ▶268HumorLife
Larry McMurtryWriting is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.236Humor
Larry McMurtryYou expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the ph… ▶269PhilosophyThought
