Quotes of Larry McMurtry - somelinesforyou

“ Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ 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. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ The whole point of loyalty was not to change: stick with those who stuck with you. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriend's boyfriends — and he accepts it. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriend's boyfriends — and he accepts it. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ Years ago someone pointed out that Texas is hell on women and horses. He was wrong about horses, for most horses are considered to be valuable, and are treated very well. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ The new Texas is probably going to be a sort of kid brother to California, with a kid brother's tendency to imitation. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ Years ago someone pointed out that Texas is hell on women and horses. He was wrong about horses, for most horses are considered to be valuable, and are treated very well. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ It doesn't present any kind of agenda, any politics at all, one way or the other at all. It just says life is not for sissies. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ Years ago someone pointed out that Texas is hell on women and horses. He was wrong about horses, for most horses are considered to be valuable, and are treated very well. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ Bunk! Pure bunk! For all I know Yellow Hand died of old age. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ 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. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ Years ago someone pointed out that Texas is hell on women and horses. He was wrong about horses, for most horses are considered to be valuable, and are treated very well. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ Years ago someone pointed out that Texas is hell on women and horses. He was wrong about horses, for most horses are considered to be valuable, and are treated very well. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ 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. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ It doesn't present any kind of agenda, any politics at all, one way or the other at all. It just says life is not for sissies. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ 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. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ 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. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ 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. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ The new Texas is probably going to be a sort of kid brother to California, with a kid brother's tendency to imitation. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ 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. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ The new Texas is probably going to be a sort of kid brother to California, with a kid brother's tendency to imitation. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ 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. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ 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. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ The whole point of loyalty was not to change: stick with those who stuck with you. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ The new Texas is probably going to be a sort of kid brother to California, with a kid brother's tendency to imitation. ”

- Larry McMurtry

“ 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. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two. ”

- Larry McMurtry
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