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It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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Lake Mills
Iowa
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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
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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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In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
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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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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.
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