Quotes by Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner

… I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather’s, that you can’t paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on a wall. If you examine a life, as Socrates has been so tediously advising us to do for so many centuries, do you really examine a life, or do you examine the shadows it casts on other lives? Entity or relationships? Objective reality or the vanishing point of a multiple perspective exercise? Prism or the rainbows it refracts? And what if you’re the wall? What if you never cast a shadow or rainbow of your own, but have only caught those cast by others?

Exercise

Life

Wall

[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

Blood

Law

Together

A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.

Running

Smell

Tree

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

Animal

Cutting

Heart

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

People

Teacher

Teaching

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

Belonging

Essentials

Individualism

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

Ifs

Materials

Writing

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

Judging

Preacher

Prophet

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

Heart

Inspirational

Motivation

But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They called you Sis. All your life people called you Sis, because that was what you were, or what you became – big sister, helpful sister, the one upon whom everyone depended, the one they all came to for everything from help with homework to a sliver under the fingernail.

People

Responsibility

Sisterhood

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Aggravated

Air

Ambition

America

Animal

Art

Balance

Beautiful

Believe

Belonging

Bird

Blood

Book

Chance

Character

Civilization

Color

Connections

Country

Cutting

Death

Digging

Dirty

Discovery

Divorce

Done

Dream

Drinking

Easy

Education

Essentials

Exercise

Eye

Facts

Fall

Fate

Feelings

Fiction

Fighting

Forever

Fossils

Games

Garden

Grandparent

Green

Halloween

Hands

Healthy

Heart

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Quotes by Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner

[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

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

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