How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists seize upon and readers expect? Where is the high life, the conspicuous waste, the violence, the kinky sex, the death wish? Where are the suburban infidelities, the promiscuities, the convulsive divorces, the alcohol, the drugs, the lost weekends? Where are the hatreds, the political ambitions, the lust for power? Where are speed, noise, ugliness, everything that makes us who we are and makes us recognize ourselves in fiction?
Wallace StegnerHe looks into his Dixie cup and looks back up as if surprised at what he found there. The future, maybe.
Wallace StegnerNo one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
Wallace Stegnerit is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
Wallace StegnerTags: introversion
The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth.
those I don't have but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on.
We are fossils in the making.
Wallace StegnerSomething will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.
Wallace StegnerBe proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.
Wallace StegnerWisdom is knowing what you can accept.
Wallace StegnerLargeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.
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