381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

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

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.

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

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.