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Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American novelist, essayist and screenwriter. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Mcmurtry, Larry.

"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it."

Mcmurtry, Larry on Maturity
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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."

Mcmurtry, Larry on Sorrow
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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."

Mcmurtry, Larry on Writers and Writing
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