L'Amour, Louis (Louis L'Amour)
Submitted by Taran on Fri, 04/14/2006 - 00:48
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
-- Louis L'Amour
For all life is divided into two parts: anticipation and memory, and if we remember richly, we must have lived richly.
-- Louis L'amour
...these things that no man can buy; these things that get into the blood; these things that build the memories of tomorrow; the hours to look back upon.
I wanted these more than money. For there is a time for adventure when the body is young and the mind alert and all the world seems there for one's hands to use, to hold, to take.
-- Louis L'Amour
In those years I'd been wandering from restlessness but also from poverty. However, I had no poverty of experience and in that I was satisfied.
-- Louis L'Amour
What is any man but the total of what he has seen? The sum of what he has done? The strange foods, the women whose bodies have merged with his, the smells, the tastes, the longings, the dreams, the haunted nights? The Trenches in Shanghai, Blood Alley, Grant Road in Bombay, and Malay Street in Singapore... the worst of it, and the best... the temples and towers built by lost, dead hands the nights at sea, the splendor of a storm, the dancing of dust devils on the desert. These are a man... and the solid thrill of a blow landed, the faint smell of opium, rubber, sandalwood, and spice, the stink of copra... the taste of blood from a split lip.
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