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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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Environmentalist
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Lake Mills
Iowa
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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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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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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You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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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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American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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