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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.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.
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We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed.
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I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it in all its subregions and subcultures both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery.
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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
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I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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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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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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This early piece of the morning is mine.
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