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It 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 McMurtry

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Larry McMurtry
Age: 84 †
Born: 1936
Born: June 3
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
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Archer City
Texas
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Larry Jeff McMurtry
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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.
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The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
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Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
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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.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it
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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.
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... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.
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The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
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Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
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Live through it, Call said. That's all we can do.
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For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.
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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
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Death and worse happened on the plains.
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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
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I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.
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