Louis L'Amour Quotes - Page 5

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• A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

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  Men, Firsts, Good Times

  Louis L'Amour (2009). “The Sky-Liners and Galloway (2-Book Bundle)”, p.212, Bantam

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• Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

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  Important, Done, Ancestry

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.290, Bantam

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• Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

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  Men, Air, Doors

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Haunted Mesa”, p.258, Bantam

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• To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.

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  Men, Thinking, Pursue

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “Last of the Breed”, p.149, Bantam

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• It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

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  Hands, Wish, Stronger

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.677, Bantam

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• Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

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  Violence, Firsts, Folks

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume Two 12-Book Bundle”, p.157, Bantam

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• I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

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  Men, Violence, Violent

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• Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Matagorda: A Novel”, p.108, Bantam

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• Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

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  Path, Logic, Awareness

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.246, Bantam

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• In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

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  Country, Teacher, Educational

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.12, Bantam

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• He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

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  Nature, Servant Of God, Tree

  Louis L'Amour (2007). “The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 5: Frontier Stories”, p.115, Bantam

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• What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

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  Mind, Way, Conditioning

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Californios”, p.51, Bantam

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• I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

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  Eggs, Long, Justice

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• If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.

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  Book, Writing, Past

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• Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

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  Teacher, Memories, Book

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• If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

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  Creativity, Creative, Want

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• Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.

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  Gun, Men, Iron

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Mojave Crossing”, p.32, Bantam

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• If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

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  Hair, Law, Boots

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Man Called Noon”, p.43, Bantam

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• What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

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  Men, Want, Enough

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.67, Bantam

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• To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

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  Motivational, Faith, Simple

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.182, Bantam

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• The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?

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  Women, Heart, Sea

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.193, Bantam

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• Trail dust is thicker'n blood.

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  Dust, Blood, Trails

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Daybreakers”, p.175, Bantam

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• What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

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  Home, Adventure, People

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.80, Bantam

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• I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

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  Skulls, Stories, Lasts

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.141, Bantam

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• A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

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  Teacher, Reading, Book

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