Larry McMurtry Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

  Larry McMurtry

  Hate, Men, Rude

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• I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.

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  Frustrated, Example, Routine

  "Novelist Larry McMurtry’s Last Kind Words". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2014.

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• Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

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  Children, Sibling, Night

  Larry McMurtry (1999). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond”

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• Death and worse happened on the plains.

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  Happened

  Larry McMurtry (1994). “Three Bestselling Novels”, Outlet

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• I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

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  Thinking, Grieving, Too Much

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.687, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Book, Home, Library

  Larry McMurtry (2008). “Books: A Memoir”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Larry McMurtry

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Anything for Billy". Book by Larry McMurtry, 1988.

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• The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.

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  Other Cultures, Long, Racist

  "Novelist Larry McMurtry’s Last Kind Words". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May 2014.

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• Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.

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  Said, Can Do

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “The Lonesome Dove Series”, p.2473, Simon and Schuster

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• If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

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  Men, Temptation, Common

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

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  Violin, Aging, Dove

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.

  Larry McMurtry

  Men, Pigs, Upset

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• ... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.

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  Thinking, People

  Larry McMurtry (1992). “The Last Picture Show”

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• 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.

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  Years, Listening, Twenties

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• -she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

  Larry McMurtry

  Boys, Men, Long

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• I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.

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  Soul, World, Normal

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.479, Simon and Schuster

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• Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.

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  Windy, Plenty

  Larry McMurtry (2015). “The Last Kind Words Saloon”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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• He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

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  Moon, Men, Sky

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

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  Running, Said

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

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  Travel, Borders

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “The Last Picture Show: A Novel”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

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  Men, Gus, Want

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• You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.

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  Mean, Cowboy, Scare

  Larry McMurtry (2015). “The Last Kind Words Saloon”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

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  War, Blue, Pigs

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Reading, Night

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• 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.

  Larry McMurtry

  Home, College, Years

  Larry McMurtry (1968). “In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas”

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