Self-parody is the first portent of age.
More Quotes from Larry McMurtry:
You need strength love is not easy. It's not easy if you find it, it's not easy if you don't find it. It's not easy if you find it but it doesn't work out. It merely says the strong survive, but not everybody is strong.Larry Mcmurtry
Yesterday's gone on down the river, and you can't get it back.
Larry Mcmurtry
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
Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.
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
If you wait, all that happens is you get older.
Larry Mcmurtry
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I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
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