Wallace Stegner Quotes
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Quotes to Explore
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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Women drive box office.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
