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The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories QUOTES

The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories QUOTES

1 " Another thing Pa taught me: If you’re going to fight … fight. Talk about it after. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

2 " The clouds hung like dark, blowing tapestries in the gaps of the hills. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

3 " They were four desperate men, made hard by life, cruel by nature, and driven to desperation by imprisonment. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

4 " He had fought for a principle, and because it was his nature to fight. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

5 " Yet Tanneman was a man grown up to danger and trouble, knowing nothing else, and for the first time he was acting with conscious, deliberate purpose. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

6 " He was still a boy, but there was steel in him. The eyes into which she looked now were cool, but they were eyes strangely mature. “I reckon I’ll stay, ma’am. Down where I come from, we don’t back water for no man. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

7 " Women! He thought, who could ever figure them out? No matter what a man said, he was always in the wrong. There was no logic in them. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

8 " And the two men walked down the street side by side, Ab Kale and his son.… "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

9 " Thunder rolled like a distant avalanche in the mountain valleys.… "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

10 " We were young then, and the West was young, with the land broad and bright before us. We knew, whatever the truth was, that every horse could be ridden, every man whipped, every girl loved. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

11 " Folks in the wagon train figured Ma would turn back, but they hadn’t known Ma so long as I had. Once she set her mind to something she wasn’t about to quit. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

12 " when a man lives out his life under the sun and the stars, half the time riding alone over mountains and desert, then he usually has a religion although it may not be the usual variety. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

13 " This was a big country needing big men and women to live in it, and there was no place out here for the frightened or the mean. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

14 " Home is where we’re going now, "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

15 " It is neither size nor age that makes a man, Mr. Ryerson, but something he has inside. My son has it. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

16 " Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you’re going someplace you haven’t time to bother with barking dogs. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

17 " Sometimes it’s better to reserve judgment …  "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

18 " I never saw a man get superior so fast. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

19 " The point is,” Frank said, “that we’re here. No use talking about what should have been. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories

20 " Quit crabbing,” Bert said mildly. “We’re here now, and we’ve got to like it. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 1: Frontier Stories