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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ec3e8ea | How about a kiss?" "Are you man enough to try?" she asked." | man-enough | Larry McMurtry | |
| e233162 | Larry McMurtry and Woody Allen, still use manual typewriters to compose their books and scripts, because computers and word processors pose too many potential distractions. | Rick Pitino | ||
| ce13237 | The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight. - Larry McMurtry | Greg Taylor | ||
| 9f5fbb7 | bandit, | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0c602b2 | I'm in the mood to travel. Once you boys get settled I may go to China, for all you know. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 30fd0fb | No," said Miss Marple. "Murder isn't a game. | Agatha Christie | ||
| a284f47 | One forgets how human murderers are. | Agatha Christie | ||
| f606caa | It all came together then, you see -- all the various isolated bits -- and made a coherent pattern. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 389a3c8 | Once, when I was about ten, we were approaching the ranch after veering north to look at some pasturage when we saw a small barefoot boy racing along the hot road with terror in his face. My father just managed to stop him. Though incoherent with fear, the boy managed to inform us that his little brother had just drowned in the horse trough. My father grabbed the boy and we went racing up to the farmhouse, where the anguished mother, the dr.. | travel-writing | Larry McMurtry | |
| 143de42 | though his day-to-day responsibilities had constantly shrunk over the last ten years, life did not seem easier. It just seemed smaller and a good deal more dull. Call | Larry McMurtry | ||
| b6757fe | I've seen your father bury many a man, but I never saw him take this kind of pains." Newt" | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4700db6 | I wish you'd stop talking about your own death," Gus said, in a joking tone. "It ain't genteel." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 4b270dd | Not too many men, in his experience, had achieved a great thing, even one. Very few ever achieved more than one, he knew. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 181d476 | Augustus could just make out the snake, coiled in a corner, but decided not to shoot it; on a quiet spring evening in Lonesome Dove, a shot could cause complications. Everybody in town would hear it and conclude either that the Comanches were down from the plains or the Mexicans up from the river. If any of the customers of the Dry Bean, the town's one saloon, happened to be drunk or unhappy--which was very likely--they would probably run o.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 3f5f0db | Jake looked a little more sorrowful as he picked his teeth. "Kilt a dentist," he said. "A pure accident, but I kilt him."... "Well, I've always considered dentistry a dangerous profession," Augustus said. "Making a living by yanking people's teeth out is asking for trouble." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 2f95483 | that evening: she was going to a country club dance with Lester Marlow. "She wasn't sheddin' no tears over the telephone," Duane said bitterly. "She may be getting to like country club dances, that's what worries me." He was in such a terrible mood that the pool game wasn't much fun. Jerry Framingham, a friend of theirs who drove a cattle truck, was shooting with them; he had to truck a load of yearlings to Fort Worth that night and asked t.. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 8b9b8ed | I guess we could pile some rocks on her," Call said. "I hate just to leave a body laying out." "Woodrow, she's mostly et anyway," Gus said. "Why spoil the buzzards' picnic?" | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 56ab9cb | My grandmother is old," Famous Shoes said. "She may want to tell me a few more stories before she dies." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0a52225 | He and Augustus had discussed the question of leadership many times. "It ain't complicated," Augustus maintained. "Most men doubt their own abilities. You don't. It's no wonder they want to keep you around. It keeps them from having to worry about failure all the time." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 33f8786 | He was two or three steps away from her and for a moment they did not know how to get to one another. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 91b6124 | The reason I'm so crazy is because nobody cares anything about me. I don't guess there's anybody I care much about, either. It's my own fault, though - I haven't had the guts to try and do anything about it. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c240d34 | Still, he was a salaried man. Even though Katie, who had been a good wife, was dead, he was not his own master. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 0d0fedf | I haven't planned, very much," July said honestly. "Seems like every time I make a plan something happens to change it." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c0320aa | Worm was old; he was a man of silence. He could speak prophecy and make spells, but mostly he was quiet and alert, a pleasure to travel with. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| f5723a1 | He was just a husband and a salaried man. Choice didn't play any part in his life. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 41a7f9a | There was no degree of competence that would assure anyone of survival, and no scale that would tell a commander which man would live and which man would die. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 10b7d5e | Learning may be the best thing we have. It may be all that we can truly keep, Lorie, | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 82c8aa3 | There was a period when he wanted to go back, when it would have been nice to sit with Maggie a few minutes and watch her fiddle with her hair. But he chose the river, and his solitude, thinking that in time the feeling would pass, and best so: he would stop thinking about Maggie, she would stop thinking about him... But it didn't pass--all that passed were years. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 5bdb30a | Love's a terrible price to pay for company, ain't it, Matty?" Caleb said. "I won't pay it, myself. I'd rather do without the company." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| cd2722e | I don't know," Goyeto said. "This is not a very strong sun." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| c7f39c9 | Of course, children were endless work. They came when you didn't want them and had needs you didn't always want to meet. Worst of all they died no matter how much you loved them. The death of her own had frozen the hope inside her harder than the wintery ground. Her hopes had frozen hard and she vowed to keep it that way, and yet she hadn't. The hopes thawed. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| ba26a47 | His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| eb22aff | He doesn't talk much, though," she added. "I don't care whether he talks or not," Lorena said. I wouldn't marry a man just for conversation. I'd rather read and having to know how than listen to some man talk." | Larry McMurtry | ||
| 08139c5 | It was a great annoyance to Billy that because of a long shit and a short nap he had lost his horse. But that was the truth of it and there was nothing he could do but limp along. | Larry McMurtry | ||
| ce76c99 | 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 | ||
| 19a8d5b | By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. | Age | ||
| e31f9cd | women are a little different than men. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 44026db | I know," said Papa. "It's all right with me, but women are a little different than men. They worry more." | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 2f717ff | Arkansas | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 629bcbc | Mama," I asked, "do you think God made a heaven for all good dogs?" "Yes," she said, "I'm sure He did." | Wilson Rawls | ||
| cbfa26e | What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up by his side. | Wilson Rawls | ||
| d2825a4 | Begrudgingly, they | Wilson Rawls | ||
| ea88fba | closed | Wilson Rawls | ||
| 62822ec | I said, "Boy," | Wilson Rawls |