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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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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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[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.
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Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
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Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
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One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
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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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We are fossils in the making.
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[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.
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We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
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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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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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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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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
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You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
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Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.
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Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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We write to make sense of it all.
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