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Owen Wister
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Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and "father" of western fiction.
Quotes
When you call me that, smile!
The Virginian (1902), ch. 2, pp. 29–30. Reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), as presumably the forerunner of "Smile when you say that, partner".
When yu’ can’t have what you choose, yu’ just choose what you have.
The Virginian (1902), chapter 13, p. 149.
An aristocrat in morals as in mind.
About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship (1930), p. 130.
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Author:Owen Wister
Category:1860 births
Category:1938 deaths
Category:Novelists from the United States
Category:Biographers
Category:People from Philadelphia