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“What kind of scholar was I? Or was I a scholar at all? My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so much to improve my lot as to understand my world, had led me to study and to thought. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”

Louis L'Amour book The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum (1984), Ch. 25

“The Apache don't have a word for love," he said.
"Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?"
"Tell me."
"Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.”

Louis L'Amour

Source: Hondo

“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.”

Louis L'Amour

“Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.”

Louis L'Amour

“We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.”

Louis L'Amour

“Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.”

Louis L'Amour

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“He never knew when he was whipped… So he never was…….”

Louis L'Amour

Source: To the Far Blue Mountains

“Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.”

Louis L'Amour The Haunted Mesa

Source: The Haunted Mesa

“There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off… and neither does she.”

Louis L'Amour

“violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.”

Louis L'Amour

Source: The Daybreakers

“I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.”

Louis L'Amour

Source: The Lonesome Gods

“Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”

Louis L'Amour

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.”

Louis L'Amour

“If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.”

Louis L'Amour

Source: The Man Called Noon

“I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.”

Louis L'Amour

Source: The Quick and the Dead

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on”

Louis L'Amour

Variant: Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

“This was the beginning of something, yet I had ventured back into a world from which I had come and found it an alien world of which I was no longer a part.  In a sense I had always been alien. My Druidic training had taken me deep into a past that held more than the present, and along with it had been my father’s accounts, returning home after voyages, of a world beyond our shores. I had mingled with the men of his crews, almost half of which had come from other lands, other cultures, until I had become a stranger in my own land.”

Louis L'Amour book The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum (1984), Ch. 31

“A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.”

Louis L'Amour book The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum (1984), Ch. 57