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Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

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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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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You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
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Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
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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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It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
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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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Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
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The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
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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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Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
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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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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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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 who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus Gus McCrae
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Live through it, Call said. That's all we can do.
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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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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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