381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

His memories were too sad, his hopes too thin. To have to say things on paper seemed a terrible task, for it stirred the memories.

If you only come face-to-face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it’s bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day – that way they ain’t usually much worse than a dry shave.

There isn’t a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.

I miss Gus... I get to expecting to hear him talk and he ain’t here. My ears sort of get empty.

His feet were swollen to twice their size, besides being cut here and there. Yet they were the only feet he had, and after dozing for an hour in the sun, he got up and hobbled on.

Most of the talk of human beings was silly talk, talk that was of less weight than a man’s breath.

You are like me, a free man. The sky is your wife.

You should marry me”, he said. “I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life.

It was something he had always done – moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.