381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

I needed a man,” Call replied. “I was hoping he might turn out to be a fighter.” “No, he’s just a jailer,” Billy said.

You’re like a starving person whose stomach is shrunk up from not having any food. You’re shrunk up from not wanting nothing.

Give Call a grievance, however silly, and he would save it like money.

I’m tired of justice, ain’t you?

It feels silly to kiss a smile. At best you just sort of bump teeth.

Lubbock, Amarillo, and Wichita Falls are the three principal cities of the Texas plains cities that I find uniformly graceless and unattractive. In summer they are dry and hot, and winter cold, dusty, and windswept; the population is rigidly conformist on the surface and seethes underneath with Imperfectly suppressed malice.

Talk’s the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.

Several times in his life he had felt an intense desire to start over, to somehow turn back the clock of his life to a point where he might, if he were careful, avoid the many mistakes he had made the first time around.

He wondered if all men felt such disappointment when thinking of themselves. He didn’t know.