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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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In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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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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I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.
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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
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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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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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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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It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.
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Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.
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Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.
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Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?
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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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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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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
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