381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

He began to wish that somehow things could have been rounded off a little better. Of course he knew death was no respecter. People just dropped when they dropped, whether they had rounded things off or not.

None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked. The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring ... There was much more enterprise in certain follies, it seemed to him.

Seems like every time I make a plan something happens to change it.""Well, life's a twisting stream," Augustus said.

The vast plain was beautiful, but it had reduced Pea Eye to a scarred wreck.

I've just served five years in a great war —the only struggle that still interests me is the conflict with the sentence, sir—the English sentence.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country."--Augustus McCrae

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

No 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.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.