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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"A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything."
Louis L'Amour
"To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder."
Louis L'Amour
"Any man can shoot a gun and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you."
Louis L'Amour
"The one law that does not change is that everything changes and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring."
Louis L'Amour
"What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough."
Louis L'Amour
"Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware."
Louis L'Amour
"Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle."
Louis L'Amour
"A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is."
Louis L'Amour
"A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it."
Louis L'Amour
"A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that."
Louis L'Amour
"One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives."
Louis L'Amour
"You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it."
Louis L'Amour
"She had believed the land was her enemy and she struggled against it but you could not make war against a land any more than you could against the sea. One had to learn to live with it to belong to it to fit into its seasons and its ways."
Louis L'Amour
"To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could."
Louis L'Amour
"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."
Louis L'Amour
"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."
Louis L'Amour
"It had been my father's way to remove obstructions, to repair washouts in old trails, to leave each trail better than he had found it. "Tread lightly on the paths," he had told me. "Others will come when you have gone."That was how I would remember my father. There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two."
Louis L'Amour
"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"
Louis L'Amour
"I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant."
Louis L'Amour
"No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them."
Louis L'Amour
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