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Wallace Stegner Quotes

Wallace Stegner quotes

American Novelist February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993

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Wallace Stegner quote: "We write to make sense of it all."
We write to make sense of it all. Wallace Stegner
If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the organic residue of a man or a generation? This is all metaphor. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers,..."
Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what? Wallace Stegner
I know no way of discounting the doctrine that when you take something you want, and damn the consequences, then you had better be ready to accept whatever consequences ensue. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "There is some history that I want not to have happened. I..."
There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked."
Nothing is so safe as habit, even when habit is faked. Wallace Stegner
The Cypress Hills massacre,...one of the final outrages of the literally lawless West...came...along that practical and symbolic divide, between the Canadian system of monopoly trading and the American system of competition, whiskey, bullets, exploitation, and extermination. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "Maybe we were the Diggers of literature."
Maybe we were the Diggers of literature. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out..."
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential..."
There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "We are fossils in the making."
We are fossils in the making. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill."
There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?"
Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting? Wallace Stegner

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