Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters. - Larry McMurtry

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I'm just a singer<br>songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.

Larry McMurtry

Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

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Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

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People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

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For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.

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Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

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Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

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