Wallace Stegner Quotes About Home

• Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

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  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.149, Penguin

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• I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.

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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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  "Wallace Stegner, the Rural West, and Me" by John McChesney, web.stanford.edu. July 05, 2011.

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• There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

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  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.6, Modern Library

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