Larry McMurtry Quotes

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

It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were ...

But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged...

One day Augustus asked Newt to ride along with him, much to Newt’s surprise. In the morning they saw...

Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had ...

You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You ...

They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.

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

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his exp...

The thought cross his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wo...

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little...

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

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

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady...

It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection long...

Once, when I was about ten, we were approaching the ranch after veering north to look at some pastur...

Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

She sighed. Men were a pain.

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

Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: w...

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity fro...

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone consider...

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

Who asked them dern pigs?” he said. “I guess they tracked us,” Augustus said. “They’re enterprising ...

But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.

Watching them, Harmony felt too shaken to take a step. Eddie and Sheba were young; but she herself h...

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is t...

There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. Wha...

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it ...

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

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

The best to do with a death was to move on from it.

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

WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It h...

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It alwa...

Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.

For most of the hours of the day—and most of the months of the year—the sun had the town trapped dee...

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

It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behav...

Jake, you’re a dern grasshopper,” Augustus said. “You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today y...

The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the ...

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

It's happiness to see you.

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of co...

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

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

The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the ...

Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage al...