381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

He didn’t tell Newt all he knew. He didn’t tell him that even when life seemed easy, it kept on getting harder.

Best to help such boys have their moment of fun, before life’s torments snatched them.

Governors and legislators wanted the hostiles held in check and the bandits hung, but they wanted it all to be done with the fewest possible men on the cheapest possible horses. It irritated Call and infuriated Augustus.

It didn’t do to ignore men. The majority of them were harmless, with nothing worse than a low capacity to irritate – they were worse than chiggers but not as bad as bedbugs, in her view.

Captain McCrae was wanting to know the answer to questions that had no answer.

The skinny ones last longer than the fat ones,” Louisa said. “You’ll probably last till you’re about sixty.

With both the Indian and the women he was always left with the feeling that, without meaning to, he had made some kind of mistake.

Besides, though she considered herself his sweetheart, she didn’t consider him her master.

He gathers information that we can’t see, and puts it together.