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Wallace Stegner Quotes: Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.
         

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.


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National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.



We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.



You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.



Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.

Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.



Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.



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

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



Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.




Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.



Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.





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It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.



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I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.



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I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.



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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.



There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.



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I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.



A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

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Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.



You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.

You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.




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