Wallace Stegner Quotes
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
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I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.
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I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.
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I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.
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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
