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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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
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We do not write what we know we write what we want to find out.
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How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it.
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it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
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You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.
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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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There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
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Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
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It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
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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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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
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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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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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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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We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
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We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.
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Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.
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Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
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We write to make sense of it all.
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