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He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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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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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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it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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We are 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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I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
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We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
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[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.
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Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
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It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.
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