Frases de Wallace Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner fue un historiador, ambientalista, novelista y escritor de relatos breves norteamericano. Se le conoce como "el decano de los escritores del Oeste".[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 18. febrero 1909 – 13. abril 1993   •   Otros nombres والاس استقنر
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Wallace Stegner: Frases en inglés

“Wisdom… is knowing what you have to accept.”

Wallace Stegner libro Angle of Repose

Fuente: Angle of Repose

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

Wallace Stegner libro The Spectator Bird

Variante: Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Fuente: The Spectator Bird

“There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.”

Fuente: All the Little Live Things (1967)

“Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?”

Wallace Stegner libro Crossing to Safety

Fuente: Crossing to Safety

“You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.”

Wallace Stegner libro Angle of Repose

Fuente: Angle of Repose

“It has never been man’s gift to make wildernesses. But he can make deserts, and has.”

"The War Between the Rough Riders and the Bird Watchers" (1959 address; reprinted in Wildlands and Our Civilization, David Brower, editor, 1964, and in Voices for the Wilderness, William Schwarz, editor, 1970, page 76)