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Louis L Amour Inspirational Quotes (121)

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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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A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.
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A good beginning makes a good end.
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If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.
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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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Neither drink [coffee or tea] was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my moustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter juice distilled from the vine of thought and the tree of man's experience.
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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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Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.
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The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead.
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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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To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.
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We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.
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A great book begins with an idea a great life, with a determination.
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There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.
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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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The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.
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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.
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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.
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The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.
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There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.
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Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.
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It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then.
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Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
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If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.
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