Wallace Stegner - Individualism Quotes

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

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I am not a good soldier in the environmental armies because I don't seem to work well in bodies with other people. Here's an irony: I'm against individualism gone rampant, but I don't actually seem to be a very good team player.

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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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