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Larry McMurtry

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

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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Donna Grant

"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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Donna Grant

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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Donna Grant

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

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Donna Grant

"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

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Donna Grant

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

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Donna Grant

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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Donna Grant

"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

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Donna Grant

"Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework."

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Donna Grant

"Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."

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

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Larry McMurtry
"Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves."

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Larry McMurtry
"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."

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Larry McMurtry
"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."

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Larry McMurtry
"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."

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Larry McMurtry
"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."

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Larry McMurtry
"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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Larry McMurtry
"Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic."

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Larry McMurtry
"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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Larry McMurtry
"A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough."

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