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The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

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's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
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Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
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A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.
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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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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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Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
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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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You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
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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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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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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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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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Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
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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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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
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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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