Wallace Stegner Quotes
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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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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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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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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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
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But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.
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To become conscious of this power is to become a 'live wire.' The universe is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every situation in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the universal mind, it receives all its power.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
