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  1. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    What if we had born Bushmen in the Kalahari? What if our parents had been undernourished villagers in Uttar Pradesh, and we faced the problem of commanding the attention of the world on a diet of five hundred calories a day, and in Urdu? What good is an ace if the other cards in your hand are dogs from every town
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  2. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    Is it compulsory to be one of the immortals? We're all decent godless people, Hallie. Let's not be too hard on each other if we don't set the world afire. There's already been enough of that.
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  3. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    I don't care how they speculate, or what their answers are. We live as we can, we do what we must, and not everything goes by either Freudian or Victorian patterns. What I am sure of is that friendship-not love, friendship-is as possible between women as between men, and that in either case it is often stronger for not having to cross sexual picket lines. Sexuality and mistrust often go together, and both are incompatible with amicitia.
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  4. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    Stegner shows us, again and again, that it is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendship, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions: What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a mark on the world? Our hottest arguments were always about how we could contribute. . . . We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. . . . I didn't know myself well, and still don't. But I did know, and know now, the few people I loved and trusted. My feeling for them is one part of me I have never quarreled with, even though my relations with them have more than once been abrasive.
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  5. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    You've got a resilient temperament, Mister Morgan," Sally said. "I have to compensate for a woman who lives in constant anxiety, depression, and alarm.
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  6. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation becomes a game.
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  7. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    Seen in either geological or biological terms, we don't warrant attention as individuals. One of us doesn't differ that much from another, each generation repeats its parents, the works we build to outlast us are not much more enduring than anthills, and much less so than coral reefs.
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  8. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    We are strange creatures, and writers are stranger creatures than most.
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  9. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    The light is nostalgic about mornings past and optimistic about mornings to come.
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  10. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden.
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  11. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    I suspect that what makes hedonists so angry when they think about overachievers is that the overachievers, without drugs or orgies, have more fun.
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  12. Wallace Stegner _ Crossing to Safety

    intellectual hare
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