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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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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No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
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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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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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We are fossils in the making.
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We write to make sense of it all.
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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
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If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.
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To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
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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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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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Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
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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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A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
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