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.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
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Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'
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My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.
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My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
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I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'
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I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
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Hast thou named all the birds without a gun; Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk.
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The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
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Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.
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I placed a jar in Tennessee And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose upon it, And sprawled around, no longer wild.
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Then rose up the horror which would make civilized man shun justice like a plague if he had not the needy to serve him as hangmen for wages.
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The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't
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The thing I remember the most was not understanding why, if you were doing the right thing, then why did people want to kill you? I remember asking my parents, 'Why is it when people are trying to help other people then they're dying?'
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How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.
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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.
