Quotes by Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept. — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and so — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality. — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks. — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff abo — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike. — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionari — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis. — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automat — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength. — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm not too — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a sober sound of expectati — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward, the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the e — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-l — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it m — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose