“I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.”

—  Louis L'Amour

Source: Sackett's Land (1974), Ch. 4

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Novelist, short story writer 1908–1988

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