Wallace Stegner Quotes


Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend. Wallace Stegner Anchoring 96
What if I cant 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 Past 79
I had only made the sign of the cross. How many times lately has the future perfect been framed in geodesic domes Wallace Stegner Future 74
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. Wallace Stegner Besides 64
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Wallace Stegner Wisdom 61
By his very profession a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory what happens in his mind is primarily pictures. Wallace Stegner Imagination 55
Hard writing makes easy reading. Wallace Stegner Reading 53
It is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. Wallace Stegner Perception 45
It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by and its persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any. Wallace Stegner Rules 43
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 Autumn 43
There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis. Wallace Stegner Destiny 41
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character the new ones are interchangeable. Wallace Stegner Character 39
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. Wallace Stegner Environment 39
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 Past 38
wherever you find the greatest good you will find the greatest evil because evil loves paradise as much as good. Wallace Stegner Good 37
Buenos dias she said in response to Hernandezs soft greeting. They had a pact to speak only Spanish to each other with the result that their conversation never got beyond hello and goodbye. Wallace Stegner Communication 37
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom but to scar tissue and callus. Wallace Stegner Hurt 37
Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept. Wallace Stegner Acceptance 30
You cant retire to weakness youve got to learn to control strength. Wallace Stegner Power 28
That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. Its all right he said. But Id take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. Thats about used up I should think. Wallace Stegner Mythology 27

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