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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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Environmentalist
Historian
Naturalist
Novelist
Writer
Lake Mills
Iowa
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When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.
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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
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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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It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.
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In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
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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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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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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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He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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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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Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
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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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Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
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It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.
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I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
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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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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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I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
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