Larry McMurtry quotes - page 2

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it. (Larry McMurtry)
I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away. View quote
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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. View quote
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Pat, did they get you for the embezzling?" Harmony asked. "That, and the fact that I got stopped with a few pills in my car," Pat said. "Seventeen thousand pills, to be exact. View quote
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But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it. View quote
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The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters. View quote
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough. View quote
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Self-parody is the first portent of age. View quote
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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Larry McMurtry)

Larry McMurtry

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: June 3, 1936
Died: March 25, 2021
Quotes count: 36
Wikipedia: Larry McMurtry

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