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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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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
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We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
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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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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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This early piece of the morning is mine.
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Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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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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I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
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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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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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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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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
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We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.
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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
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