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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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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Basically my wife was immature. Id be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats. – Woody Allen

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In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy. – Haniel Long

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Where id was, there shall ego be. – Sigmund Freud

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When the apple is ripe it will fall. – Proverb

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