It's a problem that will never go away if we don't pay this now. It's like your home mortgage. If you pay now you will save a great deal of money in interest over the life of the loan.


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LARRY MCMURTRY
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
LARRY MCMURTRY
Day baseball is now dead for all practical purposes. Sooner or later, the game will be played in its...
LARRY MACPHAIL
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, ...
LARRY MACPHAIL
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go ...
LARRY MACPHAIL
The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and r...
LARRY MACPHAIL
The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fi...
LARRY MACPHAIL
It had been my idea that a combination of purebred cattle and horses could be successful from an eco...
LARRY MACPHAIL
I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within ...
LARRY MACPHAIL
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
LARRY MACPHAIL
I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted th...
LARRY KRAMER
I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there....
LARRY KRAMER
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, bu...
LARRY KRAMER
We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; t...
LARRY KRAMER
I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened ...
LARRY KRAMER
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
LARRY KRAMER
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay...
LARRY KRAMER
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could ha...
LARRY KRAMER
Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a ...
LARRY KRAMER
By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
LARRY KRAMER
Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to reall...
LARRY KRAMER
The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as i...
LARRY KRAMER
Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let&...
LARRY KRAMER
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But h...
LARRY KRAMER
I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fi...
LARRY KRAMER
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death thr...
LARRY KRAMER
I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use t...
LARRY KRAMER
We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried...
LARRY KRAMER
Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mea...
LARRY KRAMER
The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denia...
LARRY KRAMER
Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier ...
LARRY KRAMER
I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could ...
LARRY KRAMER
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - ...
LARRY KRAMER
I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first...
LARRY KRAMER
If the books are selling, the money will follow.
LARRY KIRSHBAUM
I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like t...
LARRY KIRSHBAUM
A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable...
LARRY KIRSHBAUM