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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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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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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
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Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.
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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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Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.
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National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
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We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
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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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Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
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