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From Quotes by Wallace Stegner
- But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They…
- Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
- There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my…
- Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down…
- Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be…
- To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the…
- Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came…
- I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.
- It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and…
- Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe…
- Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting…
- [T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another…
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