I don’t sing about myself. I sing about life. I am happy, but life is sad. The songs don’t belong to me . . . They belong to those who hear them.
However, he didn’t have a high opinion of the average man’s ability as a fighter. The majority of men couldn’t fight at all and even most outlaws were the merest amateurs when it came to battle. Few c...
Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were.
Swinging off the bay. We rode all night,
You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we’re a perfect match, as long as we don’t hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch.
What if I hit the man? Newt said. That’s his worry, Call said. Not letting him ride away is your worry. They
The thing that Buffalo Hump was most grateful for, as he rode into the emptiness, was the knowledge that in the years of his youth and manhood he had drawn the lifeblood of so many enemies. He had bee...
That things were mysterious did not make them less valuable.
Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.--Augustus McCrae
Life makes everybody strange, if you keep living long enough,
It’s his dern laziness, Call said. Jake just kind of drifts. Any wind can blow him.
It didn’t do to ignore men. The majority of them were harmless, with nothing worse than a low capacity to irritate—they were worse than chiggers but not as bad as bedbugs, in her view.
It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live. ~spoken by Augustus McCrae Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
I think we spent our best years fighting on the wrong side.
I nowadays have the feeling that not only are most bookmen are eccentrics, but even the act they support--reading--is itself an eccentricity now, if a mild one. Interrupted narrative has become a natu...
I don’t eat the white of eggs if I can help it, Jasper said. I hear it causes blindness.
I don’t believe in protein, I said. I think it’s a myth, like vitamins. I don’t believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it’s all a myth.
How he died hadn't been funny, Newt thought. It's all right, though, Augustus said. It's mostly bones we're riding over anyway. Why, think of all the buffalo that have died on these plains. Buffalo an...
He said there were going to be literary parties. I tried to imagine a literary party and was unable to. It was a very abstract effort, like trying to imagine a triangle or a cube. Wearing a suit made...
He might die, but at least he could fight first, and not simply pass his days shaking at the expectation of slaughter.