01c. 1948 ADMany a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he becomes a raging fury.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
02c. 1948 ADOur world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
03c. 1948 ADKill him? Would that be it? No man knew better than he the tricks that Destiny plays on a man, or how often the right man dies at the wrong time and place. A man never wore a gun without inviting trouble, he never stepped into a street and began the gunman's walk without the full knowledge that he might be a shade too slow, that some small thing might disturb him just long enough!Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
04c. 1948 ADSo many things that are so dramatic or exciting when you read about them actually happen so simply and quietly. We humans like to consider ourselves important to creation and to the world, and we expect that whenever death comes it should be with a crash of thunder and wild shouts or something, or with soft music around and people looking grave and serious. We always have it that way in the theatre because it makes us believe in our importance. Most of our life is a matter of dressing ourselves up to believe in just that, dressing ourselves in attractive clothes, in titles, in reputations. Actually, at base we all realize that we're just a frightened bundle of animals, still afraid of the unknown, and still afraid of thousands of things that can separate us from life, and trying to shield ourselves from our own smallness.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
05c. 1948 ADYou would be wise" he agreed, "To go to Cordoba or Toledo. 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 forever.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
06c. 1948 ADI'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!""You will hate the next place, too," I said. "What you are you will carry with you.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
07c. 1948 AD...he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
10c. 1948 ADIt has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become?Most people whom I encountered were without purpose, people who had given themselves no goal. The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
11c. 1948 ADIf you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
12c. 1948 ADThere will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
13c. 1948 ADNow, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
15c. 1948 AD...if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
16c. 1948 ADSomeone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
17c. 1948 AD...the way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
18c. 1948 ADI've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
19c. 1948 ADFolks can’t seem to realize that it isn’t a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man with judgement. Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him. It takes no genius to sound well. To act right and at the right time is something else again.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
20c. 1948 ADIndeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
21c. 1948 ADThe terms we use for what is considered supernatural are woefully inadequate. Beyond such terms as ghost, specter, poltergeist, angel, devil, or spirit, might there not be something more our purposeful blindness has prevented us from understanding?We accept the fact that there may be other worlds out in space, but might there not be other worlds here? Other worlds, in other dimensions, coexistent with this? If there are other worlds parallel to ours, are all the doors closed? Or does one, here or there, stand ajar?Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
22c. 1948 ADPeople only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
23c. 1948 ADFew of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
24c. 1948 ADPeople have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.Louis L'Amour / quote ↗
