381 Quotes by Larry McMurtry

There’s no one book that would define me; I’d have to name nearly every book that I’ve read over the past 70 years. Reading has sustained me and has been the one constant throughout my life.

It was only the thought that Deets was still knowing him, somehow, that kept him from feeling totally alone.

I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad.

And it’s the only whorehouse in town. They say if you can sprout up twelve inches of dick you get to fuck free.

She wasn’t going to succeed in newspapers if she didn’t ask the big questions when she could.

He had hit with his closed fist and knocked her sprawling. It took talent to make Wyatt lose his temper, but Jessie knew just how to do it, and did it mainly just to have something happening. Pouring whiskey from bottle to glass was boring work.

Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp,” Cody said.“You evidently don’t know Jessie,” Wyatt said. “If she’s in one of her tempers she’d put a hyena to flight ...

The thing that Buffalo Hump was most grateful for, as he rode into the emptiness, was the knowledge that in the years of his youth and manhood he had drawn the lifeblood of so many enemies. He had been a great killer; it was his way and the way of his people; no one in his tribe had killed so often and so well. The killings were good to remember, as he rode his old horse deeper into the llano, away from all the places where people came.

Such is the life and death of a good cowboy.