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Larry McMurtry

"Self-parody is the first portent of age."

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"Self-parody is the first portent of age."

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

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