Wallace Stegner Quotes
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.
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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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New England is demanding newer, cleaner, and more innovative energy sources - energy sources that create jobs here in New England. We should also demand newer, cleaner, and more innovative transmission methods.
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Andrew Carnegie loved libraries; he knew their importance to an educated society and as anchors to our communities. And so, just as some loyal baseball fans travel to attend games at all 30 major league stadiums, over the last decade or so, I have slowly, casually, visited Carnegie libraries whenever I am on the road.
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For centuries, we were taught that anger is bad. Our parents, teachers, priests, everyone taught us how to control and suppress our anger. But I ask: why can't we convert our anger for the larger good of society?
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Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
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Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.
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I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.
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George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.
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Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
