Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.
Larry McMurtryI just got gang-egged, or egg-banged or something."
--Sheriff Toots Burns.
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Larry McMurtryThe older the violin, the sweeter the music.
Larry McMurtryIt 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 McMurtryUva uvum vivendo varia fit
Larry McMurtryOnly a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
Larry McMurtryIf I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.
Larry McMurtryCall listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.
Larry McMurtryI'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.
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