Larry McMurtry

If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#dealing-with-it #mottos #awesome

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#humor

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. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#humor

Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#courage

If you mean Miss Austen, I don't find her particularly romantic," Tasmin declared. "Can't say that I care much about the marriage arrangements among the middle classes." Tasmin Berrybender ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#jane-austen #romance #tasmin #marriage

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. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#easy #even #get #made #members

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#buy #cars #common #crucial #great

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

#being #brings #deep #double #exile

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

— Larry McMurtry

#cheat #enough #man #poke #want

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

— Larry McMurtry

#become #father #father figure #figure #girlfriends