381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected – he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.

Listening to women ain’t the fashion in this part of the country.

Her own folly amused her: she had once thought of herself as smart – but look at where she was.

Ikey had passed his seventieth year and considered anyone under fifty to be callow, at best.

My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,′ Augustus said. ‘And getting drunk on the porch.

Do your best, if you happen to love a fool. You’ll have my sympathy. Some folks will preach that it’s a woman’s duty never to quit, once you make a bond with a man. I say that’s folly. A bond has to work two ways. If a man don’t hold up his end, there comes a time to quit.

Life ain’t for sissies, as Augustus might have said.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity – they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits.

But as far as trusting the general run of men, there was no need, since she had no intention of ever expecting anything from one of them again.