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Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there its roar shook both the earth and me.
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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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No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.
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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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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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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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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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It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.
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I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
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You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.
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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.
Wallace Stegner
There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
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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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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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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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One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
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wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
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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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By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
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