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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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

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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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

—Louis L'Amour

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We've grown and changed, screwed up, but at the beginning of each summer, we found each other again. Or maybe we never really lost each other.

—Nyrae Dawn in Four Summers

In the end, I went away for the summer, fell in love, and everything changed. It's the oldest story in the world.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

—David Nicholls in One Day

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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. When you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

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