Quotes by : Wallace Stegner

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary.....

The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk....

Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth...

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and....

The forces of blind life that work across this hilltop are as irresistible as she said they were, they....

I find it hard to describe what it is like to look fully into eyes that one has known that well--known....

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing....

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets....

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing....

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and....