“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, quote from Comanche Moon
“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 been a great killer; it was his way and the way of his people; no one in his tribe had killed so often and so well. The killings were good to remember, as he rode his old horse deeper into the llano, away from all the places where people came.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Comanche Moon
“See this page of paper? It’s blank,” Scull said. “That, sir, is the most frightening battlefield in the world: the blank page. I mean to fill this paper with decent sentences, sir—this page and hundreds like it. Let me tell you, Colonel, it’s harder than fighting Lee. Why, it’s harder than fighting Napoleon. It requires unremitting attention,”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Comanche Moon
“Blue Duck could never avoid a moment of fear, when his father's eyes became the eyes of a snake. He choked off his insult -- he knew that if he spoke, he might, in an instant, find himself fighting Buffalo Hump. He had seen it before, with other warriors. Someone would say one word too many, would fail to see the snake in his father's eyes, and the next moment Buffalo Hump would be pulling his long bloody knife from between the other warrior's ribs.
Blue Duck waited. He knew that it was not a day to fight his father.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Comanche Moon
“I suppose she's just dying of living--that's the one infection that strikes us all down, sooner or later.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Comanche Moon
“A man can only do a given thing so many times with freshness and spirit--then, no matter what it is, it becomes like an office task. I enjoy cards and whoring, but even cards and whoring can grow boresome. You tup your wife a thousand times and that becomes an office task, too.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Comanche Moon
Larry McMurtry
Born place: in Wichita Falls, Texas, The United States
Born date June 3, 1936
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“We have thousands and thousands of people living homeless on the streets of our cities at the same time that we have men and women earning millions of dollars a year running companies that make products whose continued usage will ruin our health, our environment, and our values. The irony is incredible. It’s obscene.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from A Knight of the Word
“To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from Out of Oz
“Finché c’è vita c’è speranza.” As long as there was life, there was hope.”
― Janice Thompson, quote from Fools Rush In
“«Темнота в номере этой гостиницы была необычной. Она навевала на меня чувство мира и гармонии. Она также принесла мне чувство глубокой грусти, тоски по человеческому теплу, по обществу. Я чувствовал себя более чем разбитым. Ничего подобного со мной никогда не было. Я лежал в постели, пытаясь вспомнить, была ли эта тоска чем-то таким, что я уже знал. Нет. Тоска, с которой я был знаком, была не по человеческому обществу; тогда это было чем-то абстрактным, скорее что-то вроде грусти о том, что я не сделал чего-то неопределенного.»”
― Carlos Castaneda, quote from The Art of Dreaming
“He would never be able to emulate Richard's last gesture of defiance--gallant, glorious, and quite mad.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from Lionheart
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