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[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
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 do not write what we know we write what we want to find out.
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After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.
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[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.
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In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
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We are 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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You have to get over the color green you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns you have to get used to an inhuman scale you have to understand geological time.
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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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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It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.
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Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.
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There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
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If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.
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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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The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
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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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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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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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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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