Louis L'Amour - Place Quotes

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Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

Louis L'Amour

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

Louis L'Amour

One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

Louis L'Amour

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

Louis L'Amour

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

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The saddle is a place for dreaming when there's hours of trail ahead....

Louis L'Amour

For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

Louis L'Amour