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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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Archer City
Texas
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Larry Jeff McMurtry
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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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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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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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Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.
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I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.
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Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.
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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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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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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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... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.
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Death and worse happened on the plains.
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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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A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus Gus McCrae
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The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
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