381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains. He was not so sure he would ever get to Lorie.

He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn’t do barring a miracle.

Perhaps, he thought, as he turned back, that was what Augustus wanted: just to be free for a few days, just to saddle his horse and ride.

Are you expecting a war party?” Call asked the judge. “You seem to be thoroughly armed.” “I expect perdition, always have,” the judge replied. “I keep this building at my back, and several guns handy, in case perdition arrives in a form that’s susceptible to bullets. I expect it will come in the disease form, though. I’m susceptible to diseases, and you can’t shoot a goddamn disease.

If he didn’t like the way she did things, he was free to do them different – but he never did them different. He just fussed at her.

Pussyfooting is a vice I have been concerned to avoid.

Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don’t make a damn bit of sense.

They probably think the sun won’t come up unless you’re there to allow it.

I still think we ought to just hire the town and take it with us. Then we’d have a good barkeep and someone to play the pianer.