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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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Lake Mills
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.
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The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
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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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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 shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
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We write to make sense of it all.
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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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it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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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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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
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American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
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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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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... so that never again can we have the chance to see ourselves single, separate, vertical and individual in the world, part of the environment of trees and rocks and soil, part of the natural world and competent to belong in it.
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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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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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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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