Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtryis an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas. His novels include Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Showand Terms of Endearment, which were adapted into films earning 26 Academy Award nominations. His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations, with the other three novels in his Lonesome Dove series adapted into three more...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth3 June 1936
CityArcher City, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.
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.
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae
The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight.
... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.
The older the violin, the sweeter the music.
If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.
Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.
You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.