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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.

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
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Lake Mills
Iowa
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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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We do not write what we know we write what we want to find out.
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American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
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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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We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
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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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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
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it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
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Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.
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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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By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
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We are fossils in the making.
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A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
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I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
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No place is a place until it has found its poet.
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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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