Wallace Stegner compares towns to people, saying old ones have character while new ones feel interchangeable. He believes hard writing makes easy reading and that wisdom is knowing what to accept. The quotes also reflect on carrying the dead within and the swift passage of uneventful life.
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Wallace Stegner was a historian from the United States, best known for Great American Short Stories.
Quick Facts About Wallace Stegner
Born
February 18, 1909
Died
April 13, 1993
Nationality
United States
Profession
Historian
Notable works
Great American Short Stories
About Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist and historian who was often called the Dean of Western Writers. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the National Book Award in 1977.
Awards & Honors
O. Henry AwardNational Book AwardPulitzer Prize for FictionGuggenheim FellowshipEagle ScoutRome PrizeAnisfield-Wolf Book AwardsSierra Club John Muir Award
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![“[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.” quote by Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9b6/wallace-stegner-1352_blood_friendship-is-a-relationship-that-has-no_2197289.png)
![“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will…” quote by Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/868/wallace-stegner-1352_darkness_the-modern-age-knows-nothing-about-isola_1349271.jpg)
