It happens that I despise that locution, "having sex," which describes something a good deal more mechanical than making love and a good deal less fun than fucking.
Wallace StegnerMost things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Tag: wisdom wounds hurt life-lessons scars heartbreak
Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
Wallace StegnerOne cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.
Wallace StegnerTag: optimism cooperation environment individualism conservation american-west
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 StegnerWe write to make sense of it all.
Wallace StegnerTag: writing-philosophy
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
Wallace StegnerSalt 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 StegnerSomething will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .
Wallace StegnerTag: inspirational conservation wilderness
If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.
Wallace StegnerTag: inspirational-humor
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