A quotation from Wallace Stegner

You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) American novelist
Crossing to Safety, ch. 13 (1987)

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Stegner, Wallace - Crossing to Safety, ch. 13 (1987) | WIST Quotations

You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone…

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"What I want to know, what I look for as a writer, is what good was a person capable of, how did love flourish around him or her? How did what they do help?"

— Barry Lopez

From the essay “In Memoriam: Wallace Stegner,” in *Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World* by Barry Lopez (Random House, 2022).

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