Wallace Stegner Quotes
It is a lovely and terrible wilderness, such as wilderness as Christ and the prophets went out into; harshly and beautifully colored, broken and worn until its bones are exposed, its great sky without a smudge of taint from Technocracy, and in hidden corners and pockets under its cliffs the sudden poetry of springs.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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I hate competition.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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For a long time, it was believed that war was waged by armies which could not be identified with the nation itself. Professional soldiers took upon themselves the job of defending national interests, and it was understood that the war affected only them; the country itself went on living and working.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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It is a lovely and terrible wilderness, such as wilderness as Christ and the prophets went out into; harshly and beautifully colored, broken and worn until its bones are exposed, its great sky without a smudge of taint from Technocracy, and in hidden corners and pockets under its cliffs the sudden poetry of springs.
