(25 quotes found)
“Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.”
Larry McMurtry
“The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings - crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.”
“You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.”
“When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one.”
“True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.”
“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.”
“True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends --and he accepts it.”
“I think it will be able to stay solvent and stay open, ... I didn't want to close it.”
“Folly and Glory”
“Bunk! Pure bunk! For all I know Yellow Hand died of old age.”
