Louis L'Amour - Trail Quotes

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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.

Louis L'Amour

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Louis L'Amour

As youngsters we were taught not just to learn something but to learn something else that went with it. Pa, he used to say that no memory is ever alone, it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Louis L'Amour

No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to ride the new trails.

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I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

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It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.

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

Louis L'Amour