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Quickly Forget What I Have Just Written

Quickly Forget What I Have Just Written

Do you quickly forget what you have just written too?

Ugh.

On the bright side of it, I often discover a gem now and again when I look back through my archive.

In fact I ran into this yesterday when I posted about turning 40.

Most posts that I rediscover are middle of the road.

But here are there I find myself either wondering why I posted such garbage – or marveling at how clever I was.

It’s a body of work.

So let’s just forget about the duds.

Anyway, in the 60s, I became a busy screenwriter, if a screenwriter of a very low order. The names of the movies I wrote first scripts for have long since fallen off the tape of my memory. Unless there’s something singular about the producers or actors involved, I quickly forget what I may have just written.

-Larry McMurtry, Hollywood (Amazon)

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