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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e269bdf | I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot," Nellie said. "But bagpipers are pretty much my limit." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 16207c5 | We might all get killed this afternoon, for all I know. That's the wild for you - it's got its dangers, which is part of the beauty. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 5af0a85 | Even experienced men were apt to flounder badly in crises if they lacked leadership. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 926a0be | He had hit with his closed fist and knocked her sprawling. It took talent to make Wyatt lose his temper, but Jessie knew just how to do it, and did it mainly just to have something happening. Pouring whiskey from bottle to glass was boring work. | hit temper | Larry McMurtry | |
| d451667 | It's very peculiar, the situations life presents one with, Father Geoff reflected. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| d6fcc43 | In fact, July felt he had reached a point in his life where virtually nothing was known. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 5c8da7d | One reason I've hung on to book selling is that it's progressive--the opposite of writing, pretty much. Eventually all novelists, if they persist too long, get worse. No reason to name names, since no one is spared. Writing great fiction involves some combination of energy and imagination that cannot be energized or realized forever. Strong talents can simply exhaust their gift, and they do. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8ef8b5d | I'd like to see you think the roof back on that barn," Call said." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 58ce6cc | Give Call a grievance, however silly, and he would save it like money. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 44b6c47 | They respected only the strong men who could not be insulted without a price being paid in blood. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 6d8f407 | Now speech had left her; fear took its place. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 2db3b77 | In the night Lorena tried to sort it out in her mind. She had been hungry so much, tired so much, scared so much, that her mind didn't work well anymore. Sometimes she would try to remember something and couldn't--it was as if her mind and memory had gone and hidden somewhere until things were better. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 20636cb | Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f1ff7db | I would prefer to be shot, myself, if I get that sick," Call said. "Once there's no avoiding death I see no point in lingering." Augustus smiled at the comment, and poured himself a little more whiskey. "We're all just lingering, Woodrow," he said. "None of us can avoid dying--though old Scull did the best job of it of any man I know, while that old bandit had him." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8ad41b2 | The woman had won. In the end, it seemed they always did. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0406078 | For a time Dish lost all sense of what life was about. He even lost the sense that he was a cowboy, the strongest sense he had to work with. He was just a fellow with a glass in his hand, whose life had suddenly turned to mud. The day before he had been a top hand, but what did that mean anymore? | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 265ad04 | She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman. | beautiful-body beautiful-face face pretty woman | Larry McMurtry | |
| 6c934e2 | If you're planning on dying today I hope you dig your grave first. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 3d3fdf9 | He was annoyed with his mind--it would be a lot easier to do his task well if his mind would just behave and not keep making him scared. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 5664ae9 | That things were mysterious did not make them less valuable. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| edfb10e | Everyone who came to see him asked questions that were either stupid or impertinent. Better to see no one than to see fools. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| b8b03d1 | If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk | Larry McMurtry | ||
| d855a12 | It didn't do to ignore men. The majority of them were harmless, with nothing worse than a low capacity to irritate--they were worse than chiggers but not as bad as bedbugs, in her view. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 3fe7058 | And the blue pigs walked all the way to Montana just to be eaten. Life ain't for sissies, as Augustus might have said. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| bb6abd8 | It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required. | paces required trying wearying | Larry McMurtry | |
| 796bd68 | He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present. | past past-and-present present time | Larry McMurtry | |
| 80bdc30 | Ikey had passed his seventieth year and considered anyone under fifty to be callow, at best. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| cfbea94 | Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had missed, in some ways. | felt he-knew his-life life love love-of-his-life meant-the-most missed one-person only-love women | Larry McMurtry | |
| c935d46 | Now there was a crack, a kind of canyon, between the Woodrow Call sitting with Teresa on the train and the Woodrow Call who had made the campfire that morning and saddled his horse. The crack was permanent, the canyon deep. He could not get across it, back to himself. His last moments as himself had been spent casually--making a campfire, drinking coffee, saddling a horse. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 155b660 | Pussyfooting is a vice I have been concerned to avoid. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c797e85 | Why would you want to keep in practice being wrong?" Call asked. "I'd think it would be something you'd try to avoid." "You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it," Augustus said. "If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| a572e11 | Every time Roscoe tried to think back along the line of events that had led to his being in a place where there was no trees to lean against, he strayed off the line and soon got all tangled up in his thinking. It was probably better not to try and think back down the line of life. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c927fa5 | The man turned his blue eyes on July for a moment. 'Why, son, I'm fine,' he said. 'You're the one in trouble. I can see you carry a weight on your heart. You're hurrying along to do something you may not want to do. I see by your badge that you're a lawman. But the crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes. I have often sinned worse than the murderer, and yet I try to live in virtue. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 36c7648 | The thought crossed his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c7900b0 | You are like me, a free man. The sky is your wife. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 3a49c6b | Son, this is a sad thing," Augustus said. "Loss of life always is. But the life is lost for good. Don't you go attempting vengeance. You've got more urgent business. If I ever run into Blue Duck I'll kill" | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c5e85fe | No, but I have passed the point in life where I expect to be satisfied," Augustus said. "At least I don't expect to be satisfied with much. When it comes right down to it, Woodrow, I guess my own cooking beats anything I've come across in this life." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 50c49ab | Wantin' takes too much time...I'd rather be working. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c1350ec | I don't think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don't suit you, so you managed to avoid it. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8b19e09 | He had seen highly competent men stand as if paralyzed in a crisis, though once someone took command and told them what to do they might perform splendidly. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| cca3330 | Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense. | determination | Larry McMurtry | |
| d2771a8 | He wondered if all men felt such disappointment when thinking of themselves. He didn't know. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f63a18b | Is the girl all right?" "She's had an ordeal but she's young," Augustus said. "She won't forget it, but she might outlive it." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 13f2a60 | Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected - he got up, of course, but it never felt natural. | natural skill sleep sleeping sleeps | Larry McMurtry |