Louis L'Amour Quotes - Page 5

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• I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

  Louis L'Amour

  Tomorrow, Has Beens

  "The Walking Drum". Book by Louis L'Amour, 1984.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

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  Simple, Men, Luck

  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.291, Bantam

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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.

  Louis L'Amour

  Teacher, Memories, Book

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Louis L'Amour

  Book, Writing, Past

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• ... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

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  Discovery, Mind, Fields

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.202, Bantam

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• A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

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  Determination, Book, Ideas

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.11, Bantam

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• Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

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  Men, Cheat, Trade

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.236, 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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• Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

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  Transition, Dogma, States

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.202, Bantam

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• A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

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  Country, Meditation, Riding

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Bowdrie”, p.68, Bantam

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• Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

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  Men, Decision, Should

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.41, Bantam

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• The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.

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  Writing, Dancer

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• It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

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  Work, Needs, Done

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

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• What can the will do when the heart commands?

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  Heart, Command

  "The Walking Drum". Book by Louis L'Amour, p.410, 1984.

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• The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

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  School, Ideas, Office

  "Education of a Wandering Man". Book by Louis L'Amour, 1989.

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• How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

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  Girl, Morning, Children

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.97, Bantam

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