"No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start."

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Source : Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

Larry McMurtry

#Money Quotes #Car Quotes #Common Quotes

“I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.”
“When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances...Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night...”
“I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.”
“What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.”
“Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results.”
“Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams”
“I don't believe there is any finer mission on earth than just to make people laugh.”
“Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.”

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