Best Quotes by Larry McMurtry (Top 10)
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If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilkâand feisty gentlemen.
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If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.
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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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It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.
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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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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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From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.
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There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.
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Uva uvum vivendo varia fit
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More Larry McMurtry Quotes
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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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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Call listened with amusement—not that the incident hadn't been terrible. Being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a Yankee or not. But then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. Some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. He had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. But if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.
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You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae
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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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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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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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I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.
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Nothing good ever comes without a price.
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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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