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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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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
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Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
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