Louis L'Amour Quotes
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A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.
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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…
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If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.
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Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
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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…
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Hate would destroy him who hated.
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Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.
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I have been nothing... but there is tomorrow.
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Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
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Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.
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To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
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Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.
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One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.
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To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.
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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…
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