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it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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This early piece of the morning is mine.
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Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
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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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