Larry McMurtry Quotes - Page 3

Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.

... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the emotion and I had begun to suspect that home was less a place than an empty page.

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae