Larry McMurtry Short Quotes

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

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"Pat, did they get you for the embezzling?" Harmony asked.

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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

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

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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

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

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The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

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

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A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

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

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

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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

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But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

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

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There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.

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

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A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

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Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

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

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Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius — Dostoyevsky perhaps.

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It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.

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

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It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.

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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look—historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

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You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

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Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends – and he accepts it.

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Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

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The Beltway protects our governing body from whatever chance infection of common sense might occasionally waft in from the country at large.

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