Larry McMurtry Quotes

Larry McMurtry (11)

Birth:	3rd June, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Screenwriter

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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.

  Larry McMurtry

• 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

• Self-parody is the first portent of age.

  Larry McMurtry

• 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

• 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

• Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

  Larry McMurtry

• 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

• Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look – historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

  Larry McMurtry

• Americans don’t want cowboys to be gay.

  Larry McMurtry

• A man that ain’t willin’ to cheat for a poke don’t want it bad enough.

  Larry McMurtry

• 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

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