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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c960269 | Such is the life and death of a good cowboy. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 01b366a | No half measures," he muttered several times. It was his personal motto; he intended to have it latinised and put on a crest." | motto | Larry McMurtry | |
| 5fe2300 | He might die, but at least he could fight first, and not simply pass his days shaking at the expectation of slaughter. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a512089 | Governors and legislators wanted the hostiles held in check and the bandits hung, but they wanted it all to be done with the fewest possible men on the cheapest possible horses. It irritated Call and infuriated Augustus. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0f3e82e | You told me to stay," July said. "I know I did, son," Augustus said. "I'm sure you wish you had. But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. Go on with your digging and I'll tidy up." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 34860e3 | I don't know anything about babies," he said. "No, and you've never lived any place but Arkansas," Clara said. "But you ain't stupid and you ain't nailed down. You can live other places and you can learn about children--people dumber than you learn about them." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| fc2f2dc | I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 93d6f8f | It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that one loses affection for the major characters because they suck off so much energy as one pushes them through their lives. | fiction writing-craft | Larry McMurtry | |
| 9c0cf9f | You should marry me", he said. "I will be good to you. I am not like these men. I have manners. You would see how kind I would be. I would never leave you. You could have an easy life." | few-good-men good kind like love manners marry men never-leave not-like-the-others promise sincere | Larry McMurtry | |
| 4da95ab | the seven of them rode for two hours into country that seemed to contain nothing except itself. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| d16effb | It was as if his whole life had suddenly lodged in his throat, a raw bite he could neither spit out nor swallow. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 646f091 | Best to help such boys have their moment of fun, before life's torments snatched them. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 7983b79 | He didn't feel sad. The one thing he knew about Texas was that he was lucky to be leaving it alive--and, in fact, he had a long way to go before he could be sure of accomplishing that much. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6b9862c | It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back." | funny-idea getting-back going-somewhere home journey leave leaving leaving-a-place missed never-know ride thought thought-to-ponder traveling | Larry McMurtry | |
| 6016f4d | perhaps as he grew older he would learn to trust mysteries and not fear them. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 1c13479 | Many white men could not trust things unless they could be explained; and yet the most beautiful things, such as the trackless flight of birds, could never be explained. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| bc63f96 | We mostly quarreled. He wanted what I wouldn't give. I wanted what he didn't have. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a7ca9d1 | As she was finishing her song, the notes dipped down low--they carried a sadness that was more than a sadness at the death of men; rather it was a sadness at the lives of men, and of women. It reminded those who heard the rising, dipping notes, of notes of hopes that had been born, and, yet, died; of promise, and the failure of promise. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 15a89fe | He thought living in a place where there were eagles to watch might encourage some pretty good dreams. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 413df1b | Several times in his life he had felt an intense desire to start over, to somehow turn back the clock of his life to a point where he might, if he were careful, avoid the many mistakes he had made the first time around. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0321346 | He remembered the cold nights in their Arkansas cabin when he was a boy--how his mother piled quilts on top of him and his brothers, how peaceful it seemed under the quilts. Then it seemed like sleep was one of the most wonderful things in life. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 5dc278c | Maude Jones, had killed herself with a shotgun one morning, leaving a note which merely said, 'Can't stand listening to this wind no more. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| e925af2 | And yet death was not something you could ignore. It had its weight. It was a dead man lying upstairs, not a man who was sick. It seemed to her she had better not form the practice of ignoring death. If she tried it, death would find a way to answer back--it would take another of her loved ones, to remind her to respect it. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| dd6be4e | It ain't a mistake to behave like a human being once in a while, | Larry McMurtry | ||
| aee391a | The other men were easy to talk to, but they didn't know anything. If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 5cf1651 | My main skills are talking and cooking biscuits," Augustus said. "And getting drunk on the porch." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| ceafce1 | In the last year or two he had not only grown indifferent to company, he had begun to find it irritating. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| b244437 | The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 98e8472 | l`dl@ mrtbT@ fy lnhy@ bTryq@ Hy@ lns, l bTby`@ lmw'sst lmHyT@ bhm fHsb. | Amartya Sen | ||
| 9eec3e5 | A good statement of an inherently imprecise concern - and most important concerns in the world are imprecise - must capture that imprecision, and not replace it by a precise statement about something else. You should learn to speak in an articulate way about ideas that are inescapably imprecise (as a man called Aristotle explained more than two millennia ago). And that is one of the reasons why the humanities are important. A novel can poin.. | Amartya Sen | ||
| b084c25 | ymkn 'n tnbthq mn lns mtnw`y ltjrb wlmshrb nqsht `qlny@ mtDd@, lkn hdhh t'ty kdhlk mn mjtm` b`ynh , 'w mn wjh@ lnZr hdhh mn lshkhS nfsh . | Amartya Sen | ||
| 090d6bf | To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind', first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community; second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near; and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism. | Amartya Sen | ||
| 6657b99 | 'n ykwn lmr 'dhk~ qd ys`dh dhlk `l~ fhm lys fqT mSlHth lshkhSy@, bl kyf ymkn 'n tt'thr Hywt lakhryn t'thran shdydan b'f`lh. | Amartya Sen | ||
| 29a2b2a | Early one beautiful summer evening, when everyone else was drinking indoors, Tony and I walked down to the river. We lay on the grass under a tree and chatted. At one point, Tony said, "Look at the pattern of lace the leaves make against the sky." I looked at the canopy above us, and suddenly saw what he saw. My perspective completely shifted. I realized I didn't have his "eyes" -- though once he pointed it out, it became obvious. It made m.. | home perspective | Julie Andrews Edwards | |
| 5ec534b | She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 635e8f7 | He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: "Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefactors; men are universally actuated by self-interest; gratitude is a lovely sense of expected benefits; promises are never forgotten by those to whom they are made, usually by those who make them." | illusions | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| a17e244 | I was still a boy when I left the Ozarks, only sixteen years old. Since that day, I've left my footprints in many lands: the frozen wastelands of the Arctic, the bush country of Old Mexico, and the steaming jungles of Yucatan. Throughout my life, I've been a lover of the great outdoors. I have built campfires in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and hunted wild turkey in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virgin.. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| b4bd7e0 | Everything was going along just fine until Mama caught me cutting out of the circles of tin with her scissors. I always swore she could find the biggest switches of any woman in the Ozarks. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| c2a6656 | didn't know why I was holding my breath because I knew that the old saying of how you could hold your breath and nothing would sting you was pure hogwash. I had tried that before and it hadn't worked at all. Rowdy would have absolutely nothing to do with anything that | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 1cdec63 | It was wonderful indeed how I could have heart-to-heart talks with my dogs and they always seemed to understand. Each question I asked was answered in their own doggish way. Although they couldn't talk in my terms, they had a language of their own that was easy to understand. Sometimes I would see the answer in their eyes, and again it would be in the friendly wagging of their tails. Other times I could hear the answer in a low whine or fee.. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| b30cbc7 | Looking to the mountains around us, I saw that the mysterious artist who comes at night had paid us a visit. I wondered how he could paint so many different colors in one night; red, wine, yellow, and rust. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 4528e6e | People have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love-the deepest kind of love. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 7b0c1bc | Gott mit uns, | Richard Fox | ||
| db4660c | Back when I was a callow youth, if I had known how miserable the hours would be working for the CIA, I would have just told that recruiter to send me in prison instead. | Stephen Coonts |