381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

In the last year or two he had not only grown indifferent to company, he had begun to find it irritating.

Why would you want to keep in practice being wrong?” Call asked. “I’d think it would be something you’d try to avoid.” “You can’t avoid it, you’ve got to learn to handle it,” Augustus said. “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.

I’d like to see you think the roof back on that barn,” Call said.

For a time Dish lost all sense of what life was about. He even lost the sense that he was a cowboy, the strongest sense he had to work with. He was just a fellow with a glass in his hand, whose life had suddenly turned to mud. The day before he had been a top hand, but what did that mean anymore?

If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn’t find out, that person always did.

Every time Roscoe tried to think back along the line of events that had led to his being in a place where there was no trees to lean against, he strayed off the line and soon got all tangled up in his thinking. It was probably better not to try and think back down the line of life.

But, as with people, some plants were completely useless.

Pea Eye loped up and unfolded himself in the direction of the ground. “Your getting off a horse reminds me of an old crane landing in a mud puddle,” Augustus said.

You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we’re a perfect match, as long as we don’t hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch.