Quote by Larry McMurtry
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a

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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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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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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car
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. – Thomas Alva Edison

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Maturity

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. – Hervey Allen

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Maturity

When the apple is ripe it will fall. – Proverb

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Maturity

By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed. – Robert S. Hillyer

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. – Christopher Morley, Human Being

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