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

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"That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged."

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"Following trends on social media will not lead to social consciousness."

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"I like it because when people use a lot of poker lingo, it usually means they've been playing the game for a while. Which is why I immediately avoid those people."

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"To be scorned in the public because of your race is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society."

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"A nonhot boy stares at you and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy...well."

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"Give me a few minutes."You have time. He sat in the grass."Are you just going to sit there and watch me?"Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best."Peasant?He shrugged. "You started the name calling."

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"May you be of service to mankind."

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"There are now babies being born in our hospitals with crack or heroin habits, come on, fuck, no one would have dreamt such a horrible thing would happen to a newborn babies in Scotland. I didn't think the sons and daughters, mothers and fathers of Scotland would have been messed up in such a nasty circle of misery, depression, violence, suicides and prisons because of drugs."

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"Etiquette tip: If you're looking for the right time to leave a party, when the host yells, "No one leaves here alive," that's your cue."

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