If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. by Larry McMurtry

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Larry McMurtry

Image Embed Code

Categorized in : Life Waiting Motorcycle

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow. by Larry McMurtry

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

insulting-me insulting

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --... by Larry McMurtry

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

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated. by Larry McMurtry

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

overrated mystery understanding

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never car... by Larry McMurtry

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

too-much grieving thinking

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Wo... by Larry McMurtry

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

reading night book

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.

twenties listening years

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

... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they... by Larry McMurtry

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

people thinking

I never met a soul in this world as normal as me. by Larry McMurtry

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

normal soul world

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.

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.

brother mother father

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

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

cowboy scare mean

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

urban stories people

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.

routine frustrated example

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.

other-cultures racist long

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore. by Larry McMurtry

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

racks bookstores

A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad en... by Larry McMurtry

A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.

bad man enough want

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

good you imagination simple

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

true man maturity father

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

outsider deep things being