Quote by Larry McMurtry
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success a

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 wont start. – Larry McMurtry

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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

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Imagination
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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. – Larry Mcmurtry

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Maturity
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What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic. – Alan Jackson

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car

Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car. – Godfrey Reggio

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car

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile. – James Norman Hall

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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels. – Ingvar Kamprad

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Storytelling is our oldest form of remembering the promises we have made to one another and to our various gods, and the promises given in return; it is a way of recording our human emotions and desires and taboos. – Jane Yolen

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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me theyre more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I havent the least idea of where poetry is going. – James Laughlin

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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

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I love painting and music, of course. I dont know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. Ive certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didnt read it until I was in my late 20s. – Kenneth Koch

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