Larry McMurtry Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Call saw that everyone was looking at him, the hands and cowboys and townspeople alike. The anger had drained out of him, leaving him feeling tired. He didn't remember the fight, particularly, but people were looking at him as if they were stunned. He felt he should make some explanation, though it seemed to him a simple situation. "I hate a man that talks rude," he said. "I won't tolerate it.

  Larry McMurtry

  Hate, Tired, Fighting

• He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.

  Larry McMurtry

  Moon, Men, Sky

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

• I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

  Larry McMurtry

  Mistake, Careers, People

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Cadillac Jack: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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