Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry -
Country
Quotes
3 Sourced Quotes
View all Larry McMurtry Quotes
Source
Report...
The Beltway protects our governing body from whatever chance infection of common sense might occasionally waft in from the country at large.
Larry McMurtry
Source
Report...
Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
Larry McMurtry
Source
Report...
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: What we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb, and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
Larry McMurtry
Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Larry McMurtry
Born:
June 3, 1936
Died:
March 25, 2021
(aged 84)
More about Larry McMurtry...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes