"I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave."

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Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.633, Simon and Schuster

Larry McMurtry

#Mistake Quotes #Practice Quotes #Way Quotes

“The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not”
“Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.”
“Don't get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you.”
“I was a big light heavyweight but I feel perfect at heavyweight. When I look back at some of my old fights, I was really just a shell of myself. Now I'm healthy and strong and ready to get to the top.”
“All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.”
“I do idiosyncratic dramedies.”
“â€ŽWhat a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.”
“I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.”

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