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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
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The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
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Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.
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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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I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.
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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
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Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
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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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