The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance. Louis L'Amour More Quotes by Louis L'Amour More Quotes From Louis L'Amour Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness. Louis L'Amour emptiness revenge men A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. Louis L'Amour reading teacher book when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns. Louis L'Amour outlaw gun The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope. Louis L'Amour hope wind men What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough. Louis L'Amour enough want men Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline. Louis L'Amour plato book fall A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is. Louis L'Amour body acceptance might Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way. Louis L'Amour growth fighting change You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow. Louis L'Amour flow writing water It is better to fear a little. One is cautious then. Louis L'Amour cautious fear littles He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go. Louis L'Amour Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. Louis L'Amour I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire. Louis L'Amour shadows myself think village There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. Louis L'Amour beginning you time believe I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing. Louis L'Amour myself me sister reading I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country. Louis L'Amour you man country history I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me. Louis L'Amour me surprise sometimes character If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If it's west of the Mississippi, it's a western, a different category. There's no sense to it. Louis L'Amour river you historical book I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians. Louis L'Amour think women time men I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition. Louis L'Amour myself think tradition travel
