Streets of Laredo Quotes

“Call 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 McMurtry, Streets of Laredo

“This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call)”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets of Laredo

“All this traveling by train weakens the memory—it’s bound to,” Call said. “A man that travels horseback needs to remember where the water holes are, but a man that rides in a train can forget about water holes, because trains don’t drink.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“He doesn't talk much, though," she added.
"I don't care whether he talks or not," Lorena said. I wouldn't marry a man just for conversation. I'd rather read and having to know how than listen to some man talk.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets of Laredo

“There was no degree of competence that would assure anyone of survival, and no scale that would tell a commander which man would live and which man would die.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“He was just a husband and a salaried man. Choice didn’t play any part in his life.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“She didn’t know what to do with the severed leg. She had cut it off, but she didn’t want to touch it or even look at it.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“again.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“too.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“her.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“killed.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“GARZA”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“Bean”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“WILLIAMS”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“life.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“loyalty.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“mouth.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“did.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“home.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“Johnson,”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“it.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“him.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“important.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“drink.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“As was common with whites”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“What it showed was that people weren’t sensible”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“What I doubt is that I'll be killed by a damned squint like you, or a Choctaw boy, or this damn ignorant anvil of a German you brought in," Hardin said.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets of Laredo:A Novel.[Sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Lonesome Dove"].

“There’s always a trip you don’t come back from,”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo

“It was not so much that he didn't mind his own business; he just didn't recognize that there was any business that wasn't his.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets of Laredo

“The truth was, half the time he felt miserable and guilty even when he wasn’t neglecting his wife, or his children, or his chores.”
― Larry McMurtry, Streets Of Laredo