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Larry McMurtry Quotes

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Larry McMurtry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 3, 1936

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Man Temptation Know Always Anything

The way they taught history in schools was not appealing. They stressed wars and dates. They left the people out. I was attracted to history by the need to know about the people. In China, I went to a British school, and we just learned about kings and queens. Back in America, I had the regular social studies curriculum.

Jean Fritz

History School People America Kings

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.

Stacy Schiff

Job Words Reality Meaning You Up

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.

Sue Monk Kidd

Women Speak Gender Race Right Out

Be as you wish to seem.

Socrates

Wisdom Wish You Seem

Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

Travis Bradberry

Work Listening You Find Know Boring

The Jewish exodus from North Africa, in the late nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-sixties, brought hundreds of thousands of Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian Jews to France.

Tom Reiss

Late Africa Jewish France Jews

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

Mary Ellen Mark

Pictures My Own Own Prom Fascinated

I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.

Marvin Hagler

Life Pizza Me Diet Doing Find

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

Joyce Banda

Society Action Injustice Moral Every

The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close friendships. He spent many hours with his disciples, and his relationships with them were intimate.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Leader Brotherhood Relationships Whom

We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.

Brad Schneider

Forget Oppression Nation Refugees

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

Tippi Hedren

People Regret Fat Know Become Up