Wallace Stegner Quotes
The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.
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If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago...
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Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming.
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I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.
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The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
