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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.
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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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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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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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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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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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
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