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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

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
Awakened
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Taught

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Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
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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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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
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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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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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Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
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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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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
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We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also 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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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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