Angle of Repose
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"Angle of Repose" Quotes

By Wallace Stegner

fiction | 482 pages | Published in 2000

ISBN_13: 9781101075821
ISBN_10: 1101075821

Quotes

Home is where you can say anything you please, because nobody pays any attention to you anyway.

Wallace Stegner

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.

Wallace Stegner

What innocent creatures we once were, I thought; what untroubled pleasure we took in each other's company.

Wallace Stegner

Remember that justice is only for men, and a woman's voice follows silence just a little too quickly.

Wallace Stegner

I live in my own little world, where the columbines bloom and the bridge lights up at night.

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The days are as big as apples, at least during the morning. Then shadows grow and everything is gristle and concrete.

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The past perceived is no longer the past; it has become a new slice of time that belongs to me.

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In another country I might have been a genius.

Wallace Stegner

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.

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The trouble with a calculated risk is that there isn't one.

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