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
He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.
A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.
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.
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.
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it
Most heartfelt, I thank my typewriter. My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius.
It allows him to connect with, to find his way to, other exiles and outsiders.
I think it will be able to stay solvent and stay open, ... I didn't want to close it.
Bunk! Pure bunk! For all I know Yellow Hand died of old age.
Perhaps the truth really is, Americans don?t want cowboys to be gay.