My future is one I must make myself. Louis L'Amour More Quotes by Louis L'Amour More Quotes From Louis L'Amour If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter. Louis L'Amour acting inspiration waiting Mountains should not be judged by altitude. Louis L'Amour judged mountain should 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. Louis L'Amour age people thinking A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything. Louis L'Amour fear men lying No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. Louis L'Amour dozen association memories A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. Louis L'Amour make-you-think book thinking The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. Louis L'Amour time men way I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, Louis L'Amour shadow men thinking The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say. Louis L'Amour said forever mean I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow. Louis L'Amour has-beens tomorrow Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. Louis L'Amour teacher memories book The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman? Louis L'Amour women sea heart The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. Louis L'Amour keys writing art 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. Louis L'Amour learning wish book There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming. Louis L'Amour stopping knows men Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom. Louis L'Amour liberty wisdom use Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition. Louis L'Amour dogma transition states In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame. Louis L'Amour educational teacher country There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man. Louis L'Amour attitude men boys 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 people of whom you recognize none. Louis L'Amour girl morning children
