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"Larry Jeff McMurtry" is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas. He is known for his 1975 in literature/1975 novel Terms of Endearment, his 1985 in literature/1985 Pulitzer Prize/Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, a historical saga that follows Texas Ranger Division/ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana, and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries and both the films of Terms of Endearment and Brokeback Mountain won Academy Awards.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More Larry McMurtry on Wikipedia.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.
When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake-not a very big one.
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.
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.
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.
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.
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