Larry McMurtry Quotes

"If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted."
- Larry McMurtry
(Related: Man, Temptation)

"Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves."
- Larry McMurtry
(Related: People, Trouble)

"Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made."
- Larry McMurtry
(Related: People, Nation)

"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
(Related: Money, Success, Illusion, Mankind)

"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."
- Larry McMurtry
(Related: Being, Deep, Projects, Sense)

"Self-parody is the first portent of age."
- Larry McMurtry
(Related: Age, First, Self)

"A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough."
- Larry McMurtry
(Related: Man, Want)

"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
(Related: Father, Girlfriends, Man, Maturity)

"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."
- Larry McMurtry
(Related: Imagination, Country, First, Want)

"Americans don't want cowboys to be gay."
- Larry McMurtry
(Related: Americans, Cowboys, Gay, Want)