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Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

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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Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime.
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Death and worse happened on the plains.
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Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.
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I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.
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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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It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
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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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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
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Live through it, Call said. That's all we can do.
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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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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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The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
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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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Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
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