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If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.
Wallace Stegner
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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
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We are fossils in the making.
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
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