"Chinatown"
Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998)
“We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.”
1990s, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
Context: Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.
“If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”
The Corruptions of Our Time, p. 249
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.”
Lonely on the Mountain (1980); later quoted in A Trail of Memories : The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour (1988) by Angelique L'Amour
“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
“Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.”
As quoted in Clean Your House & Everything In It (1982) by Eugenia Chapman and Jill C. Major, p. 100
