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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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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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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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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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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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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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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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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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Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
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You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
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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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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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Death and worse happened on the plains.
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The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
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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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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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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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