{"author":"Larry McMurtry","author_id":"Larry+McMurtry","total_quotes":53,"quotes":[{"text":"Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.","author":"Larry McMurtry","tags":["contentment"],"id":2755,"author_id":"Larry+McMurtry"},{"text":"You probably drink too much. If you hand me that bottle, I'll reduce your temptations. --Augustus 'Gus' McCrae.","author":"Larry McMurtry","tags":["humorous"],"id":8805,"author_id":"Larry+McMurtry"},{"text":"The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds. A bush in the backyard was filled with little rainbows as the sun touched the dew.It was tribute enough to sunup that it could make even chaparral bushes look beautiful, Augustus thought, and he watched the process happily, knowing it would only last a few minutes. The sun spread reddish-gold light through the shining bushes, among which a few goats wandered, bleating. Even when the sun rose above the low bluffs to the south, a layer of light lingered for a bit at the level of the chaparral, as if independent of its source. The the sun lifted clear, like an immense coin. The dew quickly died, and the light that filled the bushes like red dirt dispersed, leaving clear, slightly bluish air.It was good reading light by then, so Augustus applied himself for a few minutes to the Prophets. He was not overly religious, but he did consider himself a fair prophet and liked to study the styles of his predecessors. They were mostly too long-winded, in his view, and he made no effort to read them verse for verse—he just had a look here and there, while the biscuits were browning.","author":"Larry McMurtry","tags":["simplicity","visual-moments"],"id":13175,"author_id":"Larry+McMurtry"},{"text":"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.","author":"Larry McMurtry","tags":["success","money","great "],"id":48307,"author_id":"Larry+McMurtry"},{"text":"It doesn't do to sacrifice for people unless they want you to.","author":"Larry McMurtry","tags":["love","sacrifice","sacrifice-for-others"],"id":51350,"author_id":"Larry+McMurtry"},{"text":"But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.","author":"Larry McMurtry","tags":["different","english"],"id":65357,"author_id":"Larry+McMurtry"},{"text":"Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.","author":"Larry McMurtry","tags":["destination","determination"],"id":73797,"author_id":"Larry+McMurtry"},{"text":"She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.","author":"Larry McMurtry","tags":["beautiful","beautiful-body","beautiful-face","face","pretty","woman"],"id":75143,"author_id":"Larry+McMurtry"},{"text":"WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.","author":"Larry McMurtry","tags":["kindlehighlight"],"id":76274,"author_id":"Larry+McMurtry"},{"text":"Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.","author":"Larry McMurtry","tags":["revenge"],"id":79985,"author_id":"Larry+McMurtry"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}