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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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"If youth knew; if age could."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

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"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone 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 surest sign of age is loneliness."

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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

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"We are always the same age inside."

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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

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