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Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.


Wallace Stegner


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Page is married to Lynn Stegner a novelist. Stegner also won the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird in 1977.

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18 1909 – April 13 1993) was an American historian novelist short story writer and environmentalist often called "The Dean of Western Writers". National Book Award in 1977. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.

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