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
What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i
My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.
What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.
The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?
What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.
What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.