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Hazards - There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.


Larry Kersten

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LARRY MILLER Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting...
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LARRY MCMURTRY Self-parody is the first portent of age.
LARRY MCMURTRY Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
LARRY MCMURTRY You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: w...
LARRY MCMURTRY If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone ...
LARRY MCMURTRY True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends&#...
LARRY MCMURTRY No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity fro...
LARRY MCMURTRY Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a nati...
LARRY MCMURTRY A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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