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Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

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Path, Logic, Awareness

Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.246, Bantam

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I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

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Writing

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Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

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Reality, Mirages, May

Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.146, Bantam

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A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

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Men, Firsts, Good Times

Louis L'Amour (2009). “The Sky-Liners and Galloway (2-Book Bundle)”, p.212, Bantam

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Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

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Church, Littles, Contrary

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If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

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Hair, Law, Boots

Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Man Called Noon”, p.43, Bantam

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I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

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Men, Violence, Violent

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Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

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Men, Air, Doors

Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Haunted Mesa”, p.258, Bantam

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Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

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Important, Done, Ancestry

Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.290, Bantam

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To pursue a man effectively, it is best to begin with his thinking.

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Men, Thinking, Pursue

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

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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.

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Violence, Firsts, Folks

Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume Two 12-Book Bundle”, p.157, Bantam

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A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

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Country, Meditation, Riding

Louis L'Amour (2003). “Bowdrie”, p.68, Bantam

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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

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Numbers, May, Limits

Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.25, Bantam

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What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

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Mind, Way, Conditioning

Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Californios”, p.51, Bantam

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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.

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Country, Teacher, Educational

Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.12, Bantam

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I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

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Eggs, Long, Justice

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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.

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Teacher, Memories, Book

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If you write a book set in the past about something that happened east of the Mississippi, it's a 'historical novel.' If you write about something that took place west of the Mississippi, it's a 'Western'- and somehow regarded as a lesser work. I write historical novels about the frontier.

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Book, Writing, Past

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He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

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Nature, Servant Of God, Tree

Louis L'Amour (2007). “The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 5: Frontier Stories”, p.115, Bantam

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If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.

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Creativity, Creative, Want

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Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.

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Gun, Men, Iron

Louis L'Amour (2003). “Mojave Crossing”, p.32, Bantam

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When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

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Nice, Peaceful, Hawks

Louis L'Amour (2009). “The Sky-Liners and Galloway (2-Book Bundle)”, p.234, Bantam

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when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

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Gun, Outlaw

Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume Two 12-Book Bundle”, p.1542, Bantam

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The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?

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Women, Heart, Sea

Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.193, Bantam

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What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

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Men, Want, Enough

Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.67, Bantam

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Born: March 22, 1908
Died: June 10, 1988
Occupation: Author
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