Larry McMurtry Quotes

Larry McMurtry
American Writer
Born: Jun 3, 1936
First Ignorance Man People Want You
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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. Larry McMurtry
Man Maturity Father Become Father Figure Girlfriends Only He True Reached Accepts Boyfriend His Figure
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
People Made Nation Members Easy Rural Academy Mostly Get Story Urban Even
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough. Larry McMurtry
Man Enough Bad Poke Cheat Want
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. Larry McMurtry
Good You Simple Too Much First Country Breakfast Think Imagination Too Something Expect Want Sentence Far Much Nourishing
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. Larry McMurtry
Success Buy Great You Money Car Illusion Immunity More Crucial Great Success Huge Than Common Mankind Ills Start
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. Larry McMurtry
Man Considered About Temptation Seems He Know Always Undesirable Common Anyone Anything Pacific Butcher Resisted
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. Larry McMurtry
Sense Projects One Of The Things Ang Outsider Exile His Being Double Deep Things Brings

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