"No life goes past so swiftly as an……" — Wallace Stegner
"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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108 Quotes by Wallace Stegner
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But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to…
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We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our…
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Water is the true wealth in a dry land.
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Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
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Every book that anyone sets out on is a voyage of discovery that may discover nothing. Any voyager may be…
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.
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How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such…
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you…
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some…
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This early piece of the morning is mine.
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There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.
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Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?
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