Wallace Stegner quote — “I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress…”

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I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention you think I ought to escape from, they happen to add up to civilization, and I'd rather be civilized than tribal or uncouth.

Wallace Stegner Angle of Repose civilization convention culture grandparents progress

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