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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.

Car, Imagination

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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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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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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
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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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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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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.
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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
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
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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.
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