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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
Larry McMurtry
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Larry McMurtry
Age: 84 †
Born: 1936
Born: June 3
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
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Businessperson
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Archer City
Texas
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Larry Jeff McMurtry
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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
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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 think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
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Death and worse happened on the plains.
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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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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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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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
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The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
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Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
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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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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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A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus Gus McCrae
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Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
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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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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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