381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?

He loved the way she smelled in the mornings; he liked to sniff at her shoulders or her throat.

Afterwards the members of the little war party felt fine. Torturing whites was a splendid way to spend the afternoon.

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.