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“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.”
― Tom Clancy

“Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.”
― Tom Clancy

“If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth”
― Tom Clancy, The Teeth of the Tiger

“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
and you miss all you are traveling for.”
― Louis L'Amour

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. ”
― Louis L'Amour

“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 many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum

“A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

“Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.”
― Louis L'Amour, Ride the River

“The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.”
― Louis L'Amour

“I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.”
― Louis L'Amour

“The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.”
― Louis L'Amour

“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.”
― Louis L'Amour

“He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.......”
― Louis L'Amour, To the Far Blue Mountains

“If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Man Called Noon

“To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.”
― Louis L'Amour

“violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Daybreakers

“Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa

“To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Man from the Broken Hills