Wallace Stegner Quotes
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I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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I am not a fashion freak!
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There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
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I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.
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Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.
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Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.
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People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.
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The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.
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Vegetarians should have that moral basis-that a man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows.
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If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them.
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The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.
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I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion. Boisgeloup, winter 1934.
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In a Stage II world, in communities in which survival is mastered enough to create a balance with self-fulfillment, we have the option of 'relationship language' that nourishes the soul.
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The military mind remains unparalleled as a vehicle of creative stupidity.
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Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
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Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to sufferI bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it.Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes and poison.These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs and garlic and Christ.
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This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.
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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
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Faith is the foundation of every virtue that strengthens marriage.
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There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.
