A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the i... by Larry McMurtry

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

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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.

horse brave looks

Self-parody is the first portent of age. by Larry McMurtry

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

self age firsts

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

doubt talking life

I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

careers mistake people

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be othe... by Larry McMurtry

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

know-how different knows

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams by Larry McMurtry

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

rich texas dream

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

maturity girlfriend father

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're... by Larry McMurtry

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

pain genius art

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

sadness sorrow people

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

self-improvement car money

Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.

tired hate fighting

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled the... by Larry McMurtry

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

awful reason men

Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do. by Larry McMurtry

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

can-do said

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.

bunk passion people

Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime. by Larry McMurtry

Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.

surly bartender crime

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.

temptation common men

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.

swiftness and-love years

The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight. by Larry McMurtry

The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.

sunlight earth

If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him aliv... by Larry McMurtry

If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

warrior alive long

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.

evening morning life