Quotes by Larry McMurtry

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• Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

  ― Larry McMurtry
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• The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings - crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

  ― Larry Mcmurtry
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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
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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. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.

  ― Larry Mcmurtry
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Subjects in these quotes:

• incompetents
• nonfattening
• imagination
• boundaries
• boyfriends
• nourishing

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