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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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Lake Mills
Iowa
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