381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

It only went to show what he already knew, which was that there were more dangers in life than even the sharpest training could anticipate.

That’s one of the only things I look forward to about an evening like this, you know -someone to drink tea with at the end of it. For all I know, the whole point of civilization is to provide one with someone to drink tea with at the end of an evening. Otherwise you have no one with whom to talk over whatever may have happened during the evening. Dinner parties are often more fun to talk about than they are to attend – at least they aren’t complete until they’ve been discussed.

I sometimes think the sexual organs were put there to keep the human race humble,” she said. “They’ve certainly kept me humble.

You’re the only man I know whose brain don’t work unless it’s in the shade.

The other men were easy to talk to, but they didn’t know anything. If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes.

We might all get killed this afternoon, for all I know. That’s the wild for you – it’s got its dangers, which is part of the beauty.

That things were mysterious did not make them less valuable.

Basically Jake just dreamed his way through life and somehow got by with it.

My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits,” Augustus said. “And getting drunk on the porch. I’ve probably slipped a little on the biscuits in the last few days, and I’ve lost the porch, but I can still talk with the best of them.