Larry McMurtry Quotes

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• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
• True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it
• Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
• 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,…
• Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.
• 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…
• 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 woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.
• It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill…
• People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.
• Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem…
• A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.
• Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing.…
• Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
• Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams
• But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.
• Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.
• Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.
• Nothing good ever comes without a price.
• The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead…

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