Larry McMurtry Quotes

• 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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• ‘We’ll be the Indians, if we last another twenty years,’ Augustus said. ‘The way this place is settling up it’ll be nothing but churches and dry-goods stores before you know it. Next thing you know they’ll have to round up us old rowdies and stick us on a reservation to keep us from scaring the ladies.’

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• Terms of Endearment.

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• The Last Picture Show.

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• Self-parody is the first portent of age.

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• You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

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• True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends’ boyfriends – and he accepts it.

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• One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider’s outsider.

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• Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It’s not easy even to get a rural story made.

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• Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

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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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• Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look – historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

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• Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay.

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• A man that ain’t willin’ to cheat for a poke don’t want it bad enough.

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• No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won’t start.

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Birth:	3rd June, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Screenwriter

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