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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
Larry McMurtry
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Larry McMurtry
Age: 84 †
Born: 1936
Born: June 3
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
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It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
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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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I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.
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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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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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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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The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.
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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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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
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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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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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Live through it, Call said. That's all we can do.
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Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
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