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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.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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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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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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I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
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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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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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Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
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Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly
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I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
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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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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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We do not write what we know we write what we want to find out.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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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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In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
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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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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.
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We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also 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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