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Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

Larry McMurtry

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Larry McMurtry
Age: 84 †
Born: 1936
Born: June 3
Died: 2021
Died: March 25
Author
Businessperson
Essayist
Historian
Novelist
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Archer City
Texas
McMurtry
Larry
Larry Jeff McMurtry
Dreams
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Unredeemed
Texas

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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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