Louis L'Amour Quotes

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• A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.
• 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…
• If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.
• Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
• Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the…
• Hate would destroy him who hated.
• Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.
• I have been nothing... but there is tomorrow.
• Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
• Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.
• To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.
• 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…
• A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.
• ... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than…
• Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by…
• There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
• Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.
• One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.
• To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.
• 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…

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