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Wallace Stegner Quotes

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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) And so give your uncommon readers a chance to join you in the solidarity of pain and love and the vision of human possibility. But isn't it enough? For lack of the full heart's desire, won't it serve?  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Getting old is like standing in a long, slow line. You wake up out of the shuffle and torpor only at those moments when the line moves you one step closer to the window  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) A wandering dog of a night wind came in off the sagebrush mesa carrying a bar of band music, and laid it on her doorstep like a bone  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view of earth, but it has a certain distance about it, it is under control, you can see her head going on working behind it  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) His clock was set on pioneer time. He met trains that had not yet arrived, he waited on platforms that hadn't yet been built, beside tracks that might never be laid  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness and pain  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) For history is a pontoon bridge. Every man walks and works at its building end, and has come as far as he has over the pontoons laid by others he may never have heard of  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself that pretty soon people begin adapting themselves to him  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) So what happened when base desires and unworthy passions troubled the flesh of men and women inhibited from casual promiscuity, adultery, and divorce that keep us so healthy?  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Poetry ought to be a by product of living, and you can't have a by product unless you've got a product first  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after it's heart has been cut out  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide  (Wallace Stegner Quotes) It's easier to die than to move... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks  (Wallace Stegner Quotes)
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