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Live through it, Call said. That's all we can do.

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
Essayist
Historian
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Archer City
Texas
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Larry Jeff McMurtry
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The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
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The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
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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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... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.
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You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
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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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It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
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The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.
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Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
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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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Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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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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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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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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