Wallace Stegner Quotes

There Is Another Physical Law That Teases Me, Too: The Doppler Effect. The Sound Of Anything Coming At You- A Train, Say, Or The Future- Has A Higher Pitch Than The Sound Of The Same Thing Going Away. If You Have Perfect Pitch And A Head For Mathematics You Can Compute The Speed Of The Object By The Interval Between Its Arriving And Departing Sounds. I Have Neither Perfect Pitch Nor A Head For Mathematics, And Anyway Who Wants To Compute The Speed Of History? Like All Falling Bodies, It Constantly Accelerates. But I Would Like To Hear Your Life As You Heard It, Coming At You, Instead Of Hearing It As I Do, A Somber Sound Of Expectations Reduced, Desires Blunted, Hopes Deferred Or Abandoned, Chances Lost, Defeats Accepted, Griefs Borne.

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