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We do not write what we know we write what we want to find out.

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
Iowa
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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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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
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Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.
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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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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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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
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Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
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wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
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We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed.
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