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No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
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I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there its roar shook both the earth and me.
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