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“ One 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. ”

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wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

~ Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner Evil Good Paradise Philosophy

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.

~ Wallace Stegner

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

~ Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner Heartbreak Hurt Life Lessons Scars Wisdom Wounds

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

~ Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner Hurt Life Lessons Scars Wisdom Wounds