Quotes from bookAngle of Repose

Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era grandparents. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972. The novel is directly based on the letters of Mary Hallock Foote, later published as A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West.
“She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.”
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“Wisdom… is knowing what you have to accept.”
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“You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.”
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