Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Larry McMurtry
- 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.
- It’s like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added.
- I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
- But just let me tell you something, son, a woman’s love is like the morning dew, it’s just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.
- 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.
- The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 don’t get the pint, Woodrow, I’ve walked the earth in my pride all these years. If that’s lost, then let the rest be lost with it. There’s certain things my vanity won’t abide.
Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. He was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and grew up on a ranch in Archer County. After studying English at the University of North Texas and Rice University, he worked as a rare-book dealer and then as a professor of English at Texas Christian University.
McMurtry began his writing career in 1961 with the publication of his first novel, “Horseman, Pass By,” which was later adapted into the film “Hud.” He went on to write more than 30 novels, including “The Last Picture Show,” “Terms of Endearment,” and the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lonesome Dove,” which was also adapted into a successful television mini-series.
In addition to his fiction writing, McMurtry was a prolific essayist and memoirist. He also wrote numerous screenplays, including the adaptation of Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain.” McMurtry was a recipient of numerous literary awards, including the National Humanities Medal and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Larry McMurtry passed away on March 25, 2021, in Archer City, Texas.
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