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Wallace Stegner Quotes: You can’t retire to weakness — you’ve got…

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

("Angle of Repose")

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You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.
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She saw objectives, not obstacles.
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.
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