381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

He didn’t feel sad. The one thing he knew about Texas was that he was lucky to be leaving it alive – and, in fact, he had a long way to go before he could be sure of accomplishing that much.

And the blue pigs walked all the way to Montana just to be eaten. Life ain’t for sissies, as Augustus might have said.

He remembered the cold nights in their Arkansas cabin when he was a boy – how his mother piled quilts on top of him and his brothers, how peaceful it seemed under the quilts. Then it seemed like sleep was one of the most wonderful things in life.

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who’d rather have the book than the click. A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

I don’t believe in protein,” I said. “I think it’s a myth, like vitamins. I don’t believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it’s all a myth.

A woman’s love is like the morning dew. It’s just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Son, this is a sad thing,” Augustus said. “Loss of life always is. But the life is lost for good. Don’t you go attempting vengeance. You’ve got more urgent business. If I ever run into Blue Duck I’ll kill.

The woman had won. In the end, it seemed they always did.

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