Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme pleasure of failing. Never knew anybody like that, did you? I'm very cunning. I plan it in advance. I fool myself right up to the last minute, and then the time comes and I know how cunningly I've been planning it all the time. I've been a failure all my life.
Wallace Stegnerwherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
Wallace StegnerWhatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
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