Louis L'Amour - Life Quotes

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Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

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The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.

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Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

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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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The sunset was spectacular. The sky streaked itself with rose and the region of the sun became an indescribable glory. All my life I have used words, and yet I find times when they are totally inadequate.

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A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from some pretty elegant furnishings.

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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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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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This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice... a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

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A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

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