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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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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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Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
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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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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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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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... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.
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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
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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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Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
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Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
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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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Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
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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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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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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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You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
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