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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.

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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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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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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It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.
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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
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Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
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You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.
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Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower you're large because you can't stand to be small.
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We write to make sense of it all.
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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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Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?
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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
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No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.
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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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You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
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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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