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Home Quotes & Sayings Wallace Stegner Quotes (About Coincidence, Fate & Destiny)

Wallace Stegner Quotes: You’ll do what you think you want to…

You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

("Angle of Repose")

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Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential.
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It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
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I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.
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