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June 3, 1936

Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas.

The cowboys had lived for months under the great bowl of the sky, and yet the Montana skies seemed deeper than the skies of Texas or Nebraska. Their depth and blueness robbed even the sun of its harsh forceit seemed smaller, in the vastness, and the whole sky no longer turned white at noon as it had in the lower plains. Always, somewhere to the north, there was a swath of blueness, with white cloads floating in it like petals in a pond.

1985 Lonesome Dove, ch.93.

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A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Larry McMurtry
— Leaving Cheyenne (1963)

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June 3, 1936

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