Larry McMurtry Quotes
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Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends’ boyfriend - and he accepts it (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Self-parody is the first portent of age (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Pat, did they get you for the embezzling? Harmony asked (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Death and worse happened on the plains (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Razzy was insulting me silently somehow (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
... people are always turning out to be tougher than I think they are (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Nothing good ever comes without a price (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
I never met a soul in this world as normal as me (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
It’s a fine world, though rich in hardships at times (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain’t much of a crime (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Uva uvum vivendo varia fit (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
The older the violin, the sweeter the music (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
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. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can’t be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
Yesterday’s gone on down the river and you can’t get it back (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow (Larry McMurtry Quotes)
A woman’s love is like the morning dew. It’s just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose (Larry McMurtry Quotes)