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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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Larry Jeff McMurtry
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The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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Death and worse happened on the plains.
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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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Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.
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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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A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
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Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
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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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-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
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Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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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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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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Live through it, Call said. That's all we can do.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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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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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
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The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
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