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If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
Biographer
Environmentalist
Historian
Naturalist
Novelist
Writer
Lake Mills
Iowa
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Going
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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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[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
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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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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
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You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.
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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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[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.
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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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I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.
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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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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
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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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[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
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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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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.
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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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