Wallace Stegner Quotes - Page 6

• But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They called you Sis. All your life people called you Sis, because that was what you were, or what you became - big sister, helpful sister, the one upon whom everyone depended, the one they all came to for everything from help with homework to a sliver under the fingernail.

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  Responsibility, Sisterhood, People

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). "Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West", Random House Value Pub

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• Como buckaroo del oeste, comparto su desprecio por la gente que va de acampada siguiendo el manual, confiando en la autoridad de algún ayudante de scout mediocre cuya experiencia total al aire libre probablemente consista en dos excursiones nocturnas y un fin de semana en los Catskills. Pero acabamos de tener esa confrontación. La que se rige por el libro de Pritchard es la mujer de Sid, y yo desconfío. No es mi expedición. Soy un invitado aquí.

  Wallace Stegner

  Book, Weekend, Two

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