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Larry McMurtry
Age: 84 †
Born: 1936
Born: June 3
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
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Businessperson
Essayist
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Screenwriter
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Archer City
Texas
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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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Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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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
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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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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.
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
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Live through it, Call said. That's all we can do.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.
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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
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A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.
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The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
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A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
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... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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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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