381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

I don’t think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don’t suit you, so you managed to avoid it.

He had seen highly competent men stand as if paralyzed in a crisis, though once someone took command and told them what to do they might perform splendidly.

She had always loved to tease and considered it an irony of her life that she was often drawn to men who didn’t recognize teasing even when she was inflicting it on them.

Everyone who came to see him asked questions that were either stupid or impertinent. Better to see no one than to see fools.

It’s a funny life,” Augustus said. “All these cattle and nine-tenths of the horses is stolen, and yet we was once respected lawmen. If we get to Montana we’ll have to go into politics. You’ll wind up governor if the dern place ever gets to be a state. And you’ll spend all your time passing laws against cattle thieves.

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

He didn’t understand why women had such a need to question. He himself preferred just to let life happen, and act when opportunity arose.

Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on – she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better – in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold.

I don’t eat the white of eggs if I can help it,” Jasper said. “I hear it causes blindness.