Larry McMurtry Quotes

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Things are never simple when it comes to the human heart.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.

You don't fall in love with someone because they're perfect and meet your requirements - you fall for the things that are different about them or even problematic.

We like flawed people.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love--and I mean love, not lust--is the imperfection of the human being. So, when the imperfection of the real person peaks through, say, 'This is a challenge to my compassion.' Then make a try, and something might begin to get going.

People are never perfect, but love can be.

People have their faults, but it doesn't prevent you from loving them.

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.

Nobody wants to watch perfect people.

There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

I think the things about being with someone and knowing someone so well is that the things you love about them, you always will. The things that drive you crazy will always drive you crazy about them.

I think it's important that things are flawed.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.