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... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are.

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
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Larry Jeff McMurtry
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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.
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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 you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
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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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The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
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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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A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus Gus McCrae
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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.
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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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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 reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.
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