A person should have as our goal complete agape (self-sacrificial love). The most we can expect from a society is to institute simple justice.
“our emotional experience remains largely unexplored, and therein lie the dramas, poems, and novels." [Larry McMurtry]”
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
“There is nothing typical about my profession.’ Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. ‘I don’t want to talk about it any longer.”
― The Sisters Brothers
― The Sisters Brothers
“But I had ceased to be that person; I acted him or impersonated him as best I could, for the benefit of loved ones." [Larry McMurtry]”
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
“None of it [art] tells you anything new; it merely reminds you of something you already know but forgot you knew. And that's what Larry did." [Bill Wittliff about Larry McMurtry]”
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
“Working on novels, he reaffirmed his belief that nothing important could really be explained; it could only be experienced in the daily clutter of stuff that fiction was so good at cataloguing. [re: Larry McMurtry]”
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
― Larry McMurtry: A Life
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