89 Notable Quotes By Larry McMurtry For The Ones Who Are Hungry For Success
Larry Jeff McMurtry is an illustrious American essayist, screenwriter, novelist, and bookseller. He is distinguished primarily for setting his work either in contemporary Texas or in the Old West. His novels, ‘Terms of Endearment,’ ‘Horseman, Pass By,’ and ‘The Last Picture Show,’ were adapted into films which bagged in ten Academy Awards out of twenty-six nominations. He won ‘Pulitzer Prize’ for his novel ‘Lonesome Dove,’ in 1985. The same novel was adapted into a television miniseries and won seven ‘Emmy Awards,’ out of eighteen nominations. He adapted the screenplay for ‘Brokeback Mountain’ along with cowriter Diana Ossana for which they bagged in three ‘Academy Awards’ out of eight nominations. Read through the compilation of famous quotes by Larry McMurtry which have been excerpted from his writings, essays, books, interviews, tweets and public utterances.
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—and feisty gentlemen.
It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
The older the violin, the sweeter the music.
Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.
It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.
It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added
Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.
Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.
I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.
Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.
Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.
But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.
I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.
From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.
The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae
Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.
Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.
By the time the shade had reached the river, Augustus would have mellowed with the evening and be ready for some intelligent conversation, which usually involved talking to himself.
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
You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here.... We grow our own troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.
