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But in the West few men would risk bothering a woman. It was the one thing the frontier would not accept.
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A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.
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A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
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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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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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When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
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It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
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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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Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
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What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.
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To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
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Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
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What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.
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Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.
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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.
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A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
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Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.
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There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.
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A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.
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The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
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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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The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.
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Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.
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When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.
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Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
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Louis L'Amour
Born:
March 22, 1908
Died:
June 10, 1988
(aged 80)
Bio:
Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western novels ; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, nonfiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections.
Known for:
Sackett's Land (1974)
Last of the Breed (1986)
The Walking Drum (1984)
Jubal Sackett (1985)
To the Far Blue Mountains (1976)
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