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Wallace Stegner Quotes

This early piece of the morning is mine Picture Quote #1

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic Picture Quote #1

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what? Picture Quote #1

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to Picture Quote #1

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm Picture Quote #1

The brook would lose it's song if we removed the rocks Picture Quote #1

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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences Picture Quote #1

It is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband Picture Quote #1

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth Picture Quote #1

I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me Picture Quote #1

No place is a place until it has found its poet Picture Quote #1

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from Picture Quote #1

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We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out Picture Quote #1

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus Picture Quote #1

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records Picture Quote #1

History was part of the baggage we threw overboard when we launched ourselves into the New World Picture Quote #1

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time Picture Quote #1

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend Picture Quote #1

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters Picture Quote #1

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it Picture Quote #1

No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide Picture Quote #1

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The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth. those I don't have but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on Picture Quote #1

He looks into his Dixie cup and looks back up as if surprised at what he found there. The future, maybe Picture Quote #1

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any Picture Quote #1

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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This early piece of the morning is mine (Wallace Stegner Quotes) There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what? (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to (Wallace Stegner Quotes) That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm (Wallace Stegner Quotes) The brook would lose it's song if we removed the rocks (Wallace Stegner Quotes) There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences (Wallace Stegner Quotes) It is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband (Wallace Stegner Quotes) In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth (Wallace Stegner Quotes) I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me (Wallace Stegner Quotes) No place is a place until it has found its poet (Wallace Stegner Quotes) I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from (Wallace Stegner Quotes) We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records (Wallace Stegner Quotes) History was part of the baggage we threw overboard when we launched ourselves into the New World (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time (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 (Wallace Stegner Quotes) 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 (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 (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend (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 (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it (Wallace Stegner Quotes) No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide (Wallace Stegner Quotes) The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth. those I don't have but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on (Wallace Stegner Quotes) He looks into his Dixie cup and looks back up as if surprised at what he found there. The future, maybe (Wallace Stegner Quotes) It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any (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 (Wallace Stegner Quotes) 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 (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 (Wallace Stegner Quotes)

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