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Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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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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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
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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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[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
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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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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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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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Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be lost at sea, like John Cabot. Nobody can teach the geography of the undiscovered. All he can do is encourge the will to explore, plus impress upon the inexperienced a few of the dos and don'ts of voyaging.
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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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I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.
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Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
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Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
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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 married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
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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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No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
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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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If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.
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