381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

She sighed. Men were a pain.

It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.

It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that one loses affection for the major characters because they suck off so much energy as one pushes them through their lives.

But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.

Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways.

I won't tolerate vanity in a man, though I will in a woman.

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

The level of civilization in Texas definitely wasn't very high if the old man was an example of it.