Louis L'Amour Quotes

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

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Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

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There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

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A good beginning makes a good end.

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Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.

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Do you wish to learn There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

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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 intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wastelands to the spirit.

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Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity and movement and changes in the world about him then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.

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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

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This -- this was what made life a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

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Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

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All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

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The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

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A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

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A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

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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 chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

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No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

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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.

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One day I was speeding along at the typwriter, 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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One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

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Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a childaas coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.

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Knowledge is like money to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

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He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

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