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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

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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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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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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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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Death and worse happened on the plains.
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You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
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The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
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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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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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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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I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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