Famous quotes by Larry McMurtry:
"Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves."
"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."
"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."
"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older."
"When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one."
"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it."
"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."
"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends --and he accepts it."
"I think it will be able to stay solvent and stay open, ... I didn't want to close it."
"Folly and Glory"
"Self-parody is the first portent of age."
"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."