Quotes from The Walking Drum — Louis L'Amour
1908–1988 United States
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A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.
The Walking Drum (1984)
Each generation has a group that wishes to impose a static pattern on events, a static pattern that would hold society forever immobile in a position favorable to the group in question.
The Walking Drum (1984)
How much could I tell them? How much dared I tell them?
The Walking Drum (1984)
Up to a point a man’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be.
The Walking Drum (1984)
Had I been a Christian, I would undoubtedly have been considered a heretic, for what the world has always needed is more heretics and less authority. There can be no order or progress without discipline, but authority can be quite different.
The Walking Drum (1984)
I am merely a seeker after knowledge, taking the world for my province, for it seems all knowledge is interrelated, and each science is dependent to some extent on the others. We study the stars that we may know more about our earth, and herbs that we may know medicine better.
The Walking Drum (1984)