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  • Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe that most people have some degree of talent for something--forms, colors, words, sounds. Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something.

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    Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.50, Modern Library
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Wallace Stegner

  • Born: February 18, 1909
  • Died: April 13, 1993
  • Occupation: Historian
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