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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
Biographer
Environmentalist
Historian
Naturalist
Novelist
Writer
Lake Mills
Iowa
Retiring
Weakness
Strength
Control
Learn
Inspirational
Retire

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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
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To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.
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I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
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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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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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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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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
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American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
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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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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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