Belief Quote by Wallace Stegner

“No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.”

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“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything…

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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

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“within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. —”

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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

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By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His…

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“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should flit past the windows after dark, not fill the rooms. The moment anyone tries to make poems or stories of ideas alone he is at the edge of absurdity; he can only harangue, never interest and…

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Hard writing makes easy reading.

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You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

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“His mouth is full of ecology, his mind is full of fumes.”

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I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder…

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“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .”

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“Here is a fundamental difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. The unbeliever is 'of the world', judges everything by worldly standards, views life from the standpoint of time and sense, and weighs everything in the balances of his own carnal making. But the man of faith brings in God, looks at everything from His standpoint,…

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Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive…

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“Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.”

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We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines…

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The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

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