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A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus Gus McCrae

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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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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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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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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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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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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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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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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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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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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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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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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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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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
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Death and worse happened on the plains.
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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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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The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
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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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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
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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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