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Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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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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We write to make sense of it all.
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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
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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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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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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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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
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We do not write what we know we write what we want to find out.
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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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You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.
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Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
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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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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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American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
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History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
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Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
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Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
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