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Wallace Stegner quotes: Where do I belong in this country? Where is home? Where do I belong in this country? Where is home?
Wallace Stegner quotes: There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences. There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality. Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
Wallace Stegner quotes: The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks. The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
Wallace Stegner quotes: After all, what are any of us after but the conviction of belonging? After all, what are any of us after but the conviction of belonging?
Wallace Stegner quotes: History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it. History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention ... Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention ...
Wallace Stegner quotes: [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
Wallace Stegner quotes: There is something about all beards that is like the gesture of thumbing the nose. Thank you very much. Up yours. There is something about all beards that is like the gesture of thumbing the nose. Thank you very much. Up yours.
Wallace Stegner quotes: When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations. When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations.
Wallace Stegner quotes: A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people. A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons. Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons.
Wallace Stegner quotes: In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth. In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
Wallace Stegner quotes: When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails. Now When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails. Now
Wallace Stegner quotes: There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic. There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
Wallace Stegner quotes: This early piece of the morning is mine. This early piece of the morning is mine.
Wallace Stegner quotes: You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published? You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published?
Wallace Stegner quotes: Their humor is underdog humor, a put-down of what is more powerful than they. Their humor is underdog humor, a put-down of what is more powerful than they.
Wallace Stegner quotes: No Eden valid without serpent. No Eden valid without serpent.
Wallace Stegner quotes: No place is a place until it has found its poet. No place is a place until it has found its poet.
Wallace Stegner quotes: There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis. There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.
Wallace Stegner quotes: It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers. It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
Wallace Stegner quotes: 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. 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.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept. Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
Wallace Stegner quotes: No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
Wallace Stegner quotes: We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us. We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
Wallace Stegner quotes: One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples. One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Well, there's so much to read, and I'm so far behind. Well, there's so much to read, and I'm so far behind.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential. Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.
Wallace Stegner quotes: You married me ... but you didn't marry what you could make out of me. You married me ... but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Water is the true wealth in a dry land. Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard, Girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard,
Wallace Stegner quotes: A poet is somebody who has written a poem. A poet is somebody who has written a poem.
Wallace Stegner quotes: That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm. That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
Wallace Stegner quotes: A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Mailbox scenes are the dramatic moments of our undramatic life. Mailbox scenes are the dramatic moments of our undramatic life.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
Wallace Stegner quotes: This place is like the back entrance to a black cow. This place is like the back entrance to a black cow.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Mexico was an interlude of magic between a chapter of defeats and an unturned page. Mexico was an interlude of magic between a chapter of defeats and an unturned page.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Maybe we were the Diggers of literature. Maybe we were the Diggers of literature.
Wallace Stegner quotes: He still wore, in the warming barracks, a muskrat cap with earlaps. Under it his eyes were gray as agates, as sudden as an elbow in the solar plexus. He still wore, in the warming barracks, a muskrat cap with earlaps. Under it his eyes were gray as agates, as sudden as an elbow in the solar plexus.
Wallace Stegner quotes: He looks into his Dixie cup and looks back up as if surprised at what he found there. The future, maybe. He looks into his Dixie cup and looks back up as if surprised at what he found there. The future, maybe.
Wallace Stegner quotes: We must be reconciled, for what we left behind us can never be ours again. We must be reconciled, for what we left behind us can never be ours again.
Wallace Stegner quotes: I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
Wallace Stegner quotes: Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened. Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
Wallace Stegner quotes: A wandering dog of a night wind came in off the sagebrush mesa carrying a bar of band music, and laid it on her doorstep like a bone. A wandering dog of a night wind came in off the sagebrush mesa carrying a bar of band music, and laid it on her doorstep like a bone.
Wallace Stegner quotes: As moonlight unto sunlight is that desert sage to other greens. As moonlight unto sunlight is that desert sage to other greens.
Wallace Stegner quotes: It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing. It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains. Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
Wallace Stegner quotes: within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. - within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. -
Wallace Stegner quotes: Be bold, he says. Be brave. Be true to your birthright, what you recognize in your heart. I Be bold, he says. Be brave. Be true to your birthright, what you recognize in your heart. I
Wallace Stegner quotes: Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past. Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.
Wallace Stegner quotes: The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air. The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.
Wallace Stegner quotes: You can't be close to the mortality of friends without being brought to think of your own. You can't be close to the mortality of friends without being brought to think of your own.
Wallace Stegner quotes: She was still developing her sundial theory of art, which would count no hours but the sunny ones. She was still developing her sundial theory of art, which would count no hours but the sunny ones.
Wallace Stegner quotes: To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free. To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
Wallace Stegner quotes: American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging. American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
Wallace Stegner quotes: I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from. I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
Wallace Stegner quotes: intellectual hare intellectual hare
Wallace Stegner quotes: Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly
Wallace Stegner quotes: His mouth is full of ecology, his mind is full of fumes. His mouth is full of ecology, his mind is full of fumes.
Wallace Stegner quotes: National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst. National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
Wallace Stegner quotes: You must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books. You must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to. Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked. Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked.
Wallace Stegner quotes: If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are. If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life. Sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness. Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
Wallace Stegner quotes: I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden. I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn't struck you. Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn't struck you.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards. Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
Wallace Stegner quotes: The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private. The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
Wallace Stegner quotes: 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. 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.
Wallace Stegner quotes: The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
Wallace Stegner quotes: She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into. She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
Wallace Stegner quotes: I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended
Wallace Stegner quotes: Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth,.. Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth,..
Wallace Stegner quotes: Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer. Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
Wallace Stegner quotes: There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill. There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill.
Wallace Stegner quotes: You can't retire to weakness you've got to learn to control strength. You can't retire to weakness
you've got to learn to control strength.
Wallace Stegner quotes: If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea, If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea,
Wallace Stegner quotes: Children from a big family have the benefit of a certain amount of neglect. Children from a big family have the benefit of a certain amount of neglect.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature. Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature.
Wallace Stegner quotes: We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals. We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals.
Wallace Stegner quotes: When we're young, we take so casually every sacrifice offered by the old. When we're young, we take so casually every sacrifice offered by the old.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend. Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
Wallace Stegner quotes: In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game. In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.
Wallace Stegner quotes: A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out. A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies. Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Hard writing makes easy reading. Hard writing makes easy reading.
Wallace Stegner quotes: There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters. There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
Wallace Stegner quotes: Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first. Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first.
Wallace Stegner quotes: She was so old, she would have had to be dated by carbon 14. She was so old, she would have had to be dated by carbon 14.
Wallace Stegner quotes: The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process. The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
Wallace Stegner quotes: I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me. I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
Wallace Stegner quotes: In my experience, the world's happiest man is a young professor building bookcases. In my experience, the world's happiest man is a young professor building bookcases.
Wallace Stegner quotes: I tell him I am proud of his genius for construction, but he says he has no genius for anything, he just never knows when he is beaten. I tell him I am proud of his genius for construction, but he says he has no genius for anything, he just never knows when he is beaten.
Wallace Stegner quotes: We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out. We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.

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