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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.
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Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.
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In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
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We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
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There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
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If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.
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[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
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The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.
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Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower you're large because you can't stand to be small.
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
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There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
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Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
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