381 Quotes by 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.

He decided not to shoot the tall stranger, mainly because he admired his soft felt hat.

They say he missed that whore.

We might all get killed this afternoon, for all I know. That's the wild for you - it's got its dangers, which is part of the beauty.

WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.

There was said to be measuring of penises at the Orchid, but was it true and if so what did that mean?

Woodrow don't mention nothing he can keep from mentioning. You couldn't call him a mentioner.

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

Young things mainly belong to themselves. How they grow up depends on who gets attached to them.