Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour
Louis Dearborn L'Amourwas an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into film. L'Amour's books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death almost all of his 105 existing workswere still in print, and he was considered "one of the world's most popular writers"...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 March 1908
CityJamestown, ND
There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.
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.
A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.
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.
One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.
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.
We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.
Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.
The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead....
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.
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 child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
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.
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.
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.