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

—Louis L'Amour in Lonely on the Mountain

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About Louis L'Amour

Portrait of Louis L'Amour

Louis Dearborn L'Amour (; né LaMoore; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and...

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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.

—Louis L'Amour

A good beginning makes a good end.

—Louis L'Amour

A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.

—Louis L'Amour in The Walking Drum

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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

—Louis L'Amour

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I do not know the end of my living and the beginning of my dying, for they—living and dying—are both mixed up.

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Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.

—Kim Harrison in Something Deadly This Way Comes

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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

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I have twenty-one pages, unusable, unprintable, destructive of the book as my mind still partly sees it, contradictory of character and inconsistent in tone. But I am undoubtedly started.

—Janet Burroway

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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