Larry McMurtry Quotes

When Augustus Came Out On The Porch The Blue Pigs Were Eating A Rattlesnake—not A Very Big One. It Had Probably Just Been Crawling Around Looking For Shade When It Ran Into The Pigs. They Were Having A Fine Tug-of-war With It, And Its Rattling Days Were Over.

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.

If I Had A Mind To Rent Pigs, I'd Be Mighty Upset. A Man That Likes To Rent Pigs Won't Be Stopped.

You Can Scare Off A Lot Of Cowboys Just By Looking Mean, I Guess.

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

I Suppose You Set Up Reading The Good Book All Night-spoken By Woodrow Call

Members Of The Academy Are Mostly Urban People. We Are An Urban Nation. We Are Not A Rural Nation. It's Not Easy Even To Get A Rural Story Made.

Razzy Was Insulting Me Silently Somehow.

Nobody Run Off With Her,” Roscoe Said. "she Just Run Off With Herself, I Guess.

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.

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.