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Wallace Stegner Quotes

Wallace Stegner quotes about hope

American Novelist February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993

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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. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's..."
Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness. Wallace Stegner
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the..."
Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality. Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner quote: "I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that..."
I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended Wallace Stegner

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