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Lines naming the toughest part of any journey.

Several entries here echo an old saying about the earliest stretch of life being the roughest, repeated in slightly different phrasing across different speakers. A writer working within a shared fictional world names invention itself as the hardest creative task, since the groundwork is already fixed. Related reading appears on the Challenge quotes page.

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• Last Updated on May 30, 2021