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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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When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

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Nice, Peaceful, Hawks

Louis L'Amour (2009). “The Sky-Liners and Galloway (2-Book Bundle)”, p.234, 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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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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No man is lost while he yet lives.

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Life, Men, Lost

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One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

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Daughter, Children, Writing

Louis L'Amour (2017). “Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Unfinished Manuscripts, Mysterious Stories, and Lost Notes from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists”, p.25, 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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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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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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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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I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

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Believe, Book, Writing

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Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

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Plato, Book, Fall

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

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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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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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Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

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Funny Life, Adventure, Names

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

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Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

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Adversity, Enemy, Incentives

Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.173, Bantam

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A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

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Brain, Firsts, Hats

Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.77, Bantam

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

Louis L'Amour

Writing, Dancer

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Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

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World, Being Content

"Bendigo Shafter (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel".

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Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

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Inspirational, Men, Fighter

Louis L'Amour (2011). “The Daybreakers and Sackett (2-Book Bundle)”, p.97, 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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One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

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Land, Adaptability

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.556, Bantam

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Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

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Long, Actors, Politician

Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.104, Bantam

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Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

Louis L'Amour

Anger, Men, Betrayed

Louis L'Amour (2003). “Mojave Crossing”, p.45, Bantam

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Born: March 22, 1908
Died: June 10, 1988
Occupation: Author
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