Larry McMurtry Quotes

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.

Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.

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.

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.