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Hard writing makes easy reading.

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
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Lake Mills
Iowa
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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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If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.
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Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.
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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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I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
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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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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 do not write what we know we write what we want to find out.
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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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No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower you're large because you can't stand to be small.
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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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Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.
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In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
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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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No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.
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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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