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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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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
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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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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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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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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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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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A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus Gus McCrae
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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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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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It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
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Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
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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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Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it
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Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
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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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