Quotes by Owen Wister

"Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader..."
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"When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from."
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"It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them."
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Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer. His novel The Virginian, published in 1902, helped create the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and built Wister's reputati...