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Larry McMurtry [1936-0] American

Rank: 104
Writer, Novelist

Larry Jeff McMurtry is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas.

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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.		101
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.		102
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.	Car	103
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.		104
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.		105
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.		106
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.		107
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.	Imagination	108
Self-parody is the first portent of age.		109
Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.		110
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.		111

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