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I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
Biographer
Environmentalist
Historian
Naturalist
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Iowa
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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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If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.
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We do not write what we know we write what we want to find out.
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it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
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