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Louis L'Amour (March 22, 1908 - June 10, 1988) was a renowned American author, best known for his Western novels. His works are characterized by vivid descriptions, tense plots, and profound character development, making them highly popular among readers.

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Famous Louis L'Amour Quotes

“Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.”

Mind Limits Human

Book:Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

Source: Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

“My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.”

Mind Body Faces Goddess Dealer Camels Sirens Armenians

Book:The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum

“When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use mind-altering drugs to seek feelings they do not have, each drug taking a little more from what they have of mind, leaving them a little less. Give the brain encouragement from study, from thinking, from visualizing, and no drugs are needed.”

Thinking Giving Mind Littles Use Feelings Cities Brain Study Fool Needed Drug Mountain Encouragement Leaving Ancient Site Typewriters Pitiful Buffalo Visualizing Drug Taking

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

“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.”

Ifs Mind Home Life Is Chance Cold Blame Owners Elegant Select Furnishings

Book:Bendigo Shafter

Source: Bendigo Shafter

“What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.”

Way Mind Conditioning What Is Education

Book:The Californios

Source: The Californios

“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 yours forever.”

Mind May Inspiration Lost Forever Failing All Things Committed Graduation Stolen Health And Strength

Author:Louis L'Amour

“... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.”

Mind Made Fields Discovery Prepared Be Prepared Teachability

Book:The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum

“What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.”

People Mind Home Speak Adventure

Book:Education of a Wandering Man

Source: Education of a Wandering Man

About the Author

Born: March 22, 1908
Died: June 10, 1988
Known for: Author
Quotes: 220

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