Louis L'Amour
Louis L'Amour
Louis Dearborn L'Amourwas an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels; however, he also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction, as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into film. L'Amour's books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death almost all of his 105 existing workswere still in print, and he was considered "one of the world's most popular writers"...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 March 1908
CityJamestown, ND
Louis L'Amour quotes about
What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i
The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.
My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.
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 pretty elegant furnishings.
What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.
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.
A good beginning makes a good end.
At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.
You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.