381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

She didn’t know what to do with the severed leg. She had cut it off, but she didn’t want to touch it or even look at it.

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.

All his work, and it hadn’t saved anyone, or slowed the moment of their going by a minute.

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

Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay.

He and Augustus had discussed the question of leadership many times. “It ain’t complicated,” Augustus maintained. “Most men doubt their own abilities. You don’t. It’s no wonder they want to keep you around. It keeps them from having to worry about failure all the time.

He said there were going to be literary parties. I tried to imagine a literary party and was unable to. It was a very abstract effort, like trying to imagine a triangle or a cube. Wearing a suit made me feel even more abstract. I had a mental picture of me inside my suit, inside a party, inside a building, inside San Francisco. I didn’t know what I was doing, inside so many things that were unlike me.

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

I don’t do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I’m frustrated if for some reason I can’t get ahold of all three.