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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.
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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
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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 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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When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.
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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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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
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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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I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
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it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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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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He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
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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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