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What the disorderly crave above everything is order, what the dislocated aspire to is location.
— Wallace Stegner
Where do I belong in this country? Where is home?
— Wallace Stegner
There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.
— Wallace Stegner
The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
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After all, what are any of us after but the conviction of belonging?
— Wallace Stegner
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
We write to make sense of it all.
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Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention ...
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— Wallace Stegner
When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations.
— Wallace Stegner
A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.
— Wallace Stegner
Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons.
— Wallace Stegner
What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness and pain.
— Wallace Stegner
In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.
— Wallace Stegner
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
Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.
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You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published?
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I'm a huge fan of San Francisco. And I was out here for a couple years in the mid-'90s when I was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
You can't be close to the mortality of friends without being brought to think of your own.
— Wallace Stegner
Well, there's so much to read, and I'm so far behind.
— Wallace Stegner
We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
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No Eden valid without serpent.
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We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals.
— Wallace Stegner
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
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We are fossils in the making.
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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.
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There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill.
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You can't retire to weakness you've got to learn to control strength. — Wallace Stegner
I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun.
— Wallace Stegner
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
Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
— Wallace Stegner
I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.
— Wallace Stegner
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.
— Wallace Stegner
She was still developing her sundial theory of art, which would count no hours but the sunny ones.
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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
— Wallace Stegner
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.
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It almost was. With
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If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.
— Wallace Stegner
No place is a place until it has found its poet.
— Wallace Stegner
There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.
— Wallace Stegner
It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
— Wallace Stegner
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
Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
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You married me ... but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
— Wallace Stegner
Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.
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Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
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One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
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That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
— Wallace Stegner
A poet is somebody who has written a poem.
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Girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard,
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He says that when asked if he feels like an old man he replies that he does not, he feels like a young man
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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.
— Wallace Stegner
I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden.
— Wallace Stegner
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
You must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.
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Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
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Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers.
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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
Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked.
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Wisdom is knowing what you can accept.
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If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
— Wallace Stegner
American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
— Wallace Stegner
Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.
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He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
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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
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
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
— Wallace Stegner
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
The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
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She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
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Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
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I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended
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Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth,..
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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.
— Wallace Stegner
The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
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Wallace Stegner once wrote that the lessons of life amount to scar tissue.
— Michael McGarrity
Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
— Wallace Stegner
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
A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
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Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
— Wallace Stegner
Hard writing makes easy reading.
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There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
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Habit is my true, my wedded wife.
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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
She was so old, she would have had to be dated by carbon 14.
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In my experience, the world's happiest man is a young professor building bookcases.
— Wallace Stegner
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.
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We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
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Sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life.
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I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
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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
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His mouth is full of ecology, his mind is full of fumes.
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