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Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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Lake Mills
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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
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Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.
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We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed.
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A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
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[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.
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If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.
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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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