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Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner Quotes

Total quotes: 5

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Wallace Stegner

Birthname

AKA: Wallace Stegner

Birthday: February 18, 1909

Death: April 13, 1993

Educated At: University Of Utah, University Of Iowa

Manner of Death: Accident

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Historian, Novelist, Writer

Total quotes: 5

“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

— Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird

Tagged: Heartbreaks, broken, Damage, Wisdom, Lesson

“We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.”

— Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West

Tagged: Nature, country, enviromentalism, Peace, Simplicity

“It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.”

— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

Tagged: Extrovert Quotes

“She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.”

— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

Tagged: Loneliness, Isolation

“Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”

— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

Tagged: Autumn Love

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