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A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting. Louis Dearborn L'Amour

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	Louis Dearborn L'Amour
	Louis Dearborn L'Amour (March 22, 1908 - June 10, 1988) was an American author of primarily Western fiction. He was of French-Canadian background, born in Jamestown, North Dakota. L'Amour's books remain enormously popular, and most have gone through multiple printings. Read More

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Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost the story. It is waiting for you when you return. You can pick up a book and resume reading at any time, after a few minutes, a few days, even a few years. A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in all periods of time.

One day I was speeding along at the typwriter, and my daughter who was a child at the time asked me, 'Daddy, why are you writing so fast?' And I replied, 'Because I want to see how the story turns out!'

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.