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• Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Matagorda: A Novel”, p.108, Bantam

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• I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.

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  Future

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Jubal Sackett”, p.137, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Book, Learning, Wish

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• There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.

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  Lying, Eye, Reflection

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.180, Bantam

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• When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.

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  Encouragement, Thinking, Typewriters

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.166, Bantam

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• When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

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  Country, Two, Important

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Age

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.504, Bantam

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• Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

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  Victory, Inches, Miles

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• Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

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  Mountain, Should, Judged

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• 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.

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  Mean, Forever, Said

  Louis L'Amour (1980). “Four complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

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  Time, Book, Reading

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• I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
  the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
  as a storyteller. A good storyteller.

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  Men, Thinking, Shadow

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Shadow Riders”, p.66, Bantam

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• To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

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  Rooms, Made, Adaptability

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “Last of the Breed”, p.161, Bantam

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• I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.

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  Men, Giving, Wonder

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• No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

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  Men, Cynic, Raised

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.333, Bantam

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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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  Wisdom, Liberty, Use

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• No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

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  Memories, Dozen, Association

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.937, Bantam

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• The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

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  Art, Writing, Keys

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• Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

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  Men, Cheat, Trade

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.236, Bantam

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• It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly.

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  Work, Needs, Done

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “Last of the Breed”, p.149, Bantam

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• To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

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  Age, Fool

  Louis L'Amour (2015). “Sitka: A Novel”, p.63, Bantam

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• When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.

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  Lying, Believe, Animal

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Ride the Dark Trail”, p.70, Bantam

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• I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a rough country; rough men, but good men. Your father is in that class. As for you, I don't think you'd measure up, and you'll do well to leave it. You're a hothouse flower, very soft, very appealing and very useless...In the world you are going to, men want pretty useless women. They want toys for their lighte moments, and we have those women out here, too, only we have another name for them. We want women who can make a home, and if need be, handle a rifle.

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  Country, Father, Believe

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• It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

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  Hands, Wish, Stronger

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.677, Bantam

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• To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

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  Motivational, Faith, Simple

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.182, Bantam

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