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It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.

Larry McMurtry

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Larry McMurtry
Age: 84 †
Born: 1936
Born: June 3
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
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Businessperson
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Historian
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Archer City
Texas
McMurtry
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Larry Jeff McMurtry
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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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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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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.
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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.
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A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus Gus McCrae
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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
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I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
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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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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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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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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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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the emotion and I had begun to suspect that home was less a place than an empty page.
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The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
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