Wallace Stegner - Family Quotes

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I grew up doubting the big-bonanza-just-over-the-next-rise notion because for years I watched my family chase it. I got pretty jaundiced on that subject. A little realism would have helped my family a good deal.

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Nobody in my family had ever gone to college. I did, and there they said, You've got to major in something. So I said, Fine, economics. And I took one course in economics and that cured that.

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