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'AmourTo live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.
Louis L'AmourWhen a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
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Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
Louis L'AmourTags: education
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
Louis L'AmourTags: writing writing-craft writing-life
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Louis L'AmourTags: inspirational reading books
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'AmourTags: reading books history historical-fiction
She handed him the blankets and the ground sheet and he shook them out, then put them down under the trees. Angie got down on her knees and spread the ground sheet over the leaves, then the blankets.
'You never forget do you? I mean about seeing things first.'
'Hope I never.'
He was oddly uncomfortable, hesitant. 'Good way to lose your hair, not noticing things.'
He sat down and pulled off his boots. The cottonwoods whispered more softly. The squirrel gave one short inquiring chatter, then was silent.
The lone coyote spoke to the sky and the stream rustled busily about the stones. A bit of mud fell into the stream with a faint plop.
It was night and there was no sound. Or anyway, not very much." (p 154)
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination
Louis L'AmourIt is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.
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