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
-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.
Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.
They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.
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.
Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.