Mcmurtry

Famous quotes containing the word 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 (b. 1936)

    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 (b. 1936)

    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 (b. 1936)