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

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Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

Larry McMurtry

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“Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.”
“Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.”
“I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.”
“If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.”
“The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.”
“If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.”
“Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!”
“Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.”

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