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f295207 Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. writing inspirational Louis L'Amour
a333fa8 Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. reading books inspirational Louis L'Amour
bff0320 Up to a point a person's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow." Louis L'Amour
a5a1298 A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. Louis L'Amour
a771be4 I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen. inspirational ambition initiative Louis L'Amour
f105327 When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is. uniqueness Louis L'Amour
465c912 Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else. Louis L'Amour
5531543 I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn. Louis L'Amour
e356350 A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. Louis L'Amour
e3520c7 Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. Louis L'Amour
f29994c The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say." poetry Louis L'Amour
028c209 The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail. Louis L'Amour
dd116db What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?" I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? "There is time," she said, "but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning." Louis L'Amour
277c208 It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. Louis L'Amour
c0dbda8 Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more. history reading historical-fiction Louis L'Amour
13cf93d He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was....... Louis L'Amour
ce5ef05 Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence. Louis L'Amour
ce74eeb We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become. search seeker knowledge Louis L'Amour
8378181 Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees. seeing perspective Louis L'Amour
f53b2bd The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. understanding people writing painting sculpture Louis L'Amour
a8b28a1 violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. violence rights Louis L'Amour
0c0ce2c Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. money value knowledge Louis L'Amour
5ef5959 Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost. hope civilization Louis L'Amour
2df1e6b I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label. labels Louis L'Amour
0da5f9b I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it. Louis L'Amour
22bde91 If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined. homor Louis L'Amour
1151261 Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places. I read on buses, trains, and plains. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attend.. Louis L'Amour
f992724 You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone. Louis L'Amour
8074dbb Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. ignorance knowledge Louis L'Amour
6c9678d 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. Louis L'Amour
9ab04d9 A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. Louis L'Amour
cc8cd35 To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd. crowd Louis L'Amour
6634c9e No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself. Louis L'Amour
b83df8f Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone. Louis L'Amour
fc21a34 Destarte! How musical! What does it mean?" "You can't say it except in Mescalero. It means Morning, but that isn't what it means, either. Indian words are more than just that. They also mean the feel and the sound of the name. It means like Crack of Dawn, the first bronze light that makes the buttes stand out against the gray desert. It means the first sound you hear of a brook curling over some rocks-some trout jumping and a beaver croonin.. Louis L'Amour
d0b06fd Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said, 'Trust in the Lord, but keep your powder dry. Louis L'Amour
09d58c3 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." Louis L'Amour
8db47b6 One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend. Louis L'Amour
05af55e 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. Louis L'Amour
f948654 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. Louis L'Amour
2d3772c 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. reading life-lessons education teachers literacy literate-culture teaching Louis L'Amour
7d698c8 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. Louis L'Amour
0b7112b There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond. Louis L'Amour
a4c7a98 To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'. Louis L'Amour
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