Maybe we were the Diggers of literature. Auteur: Wallace Stegner Copy Quote More from Wallace Stegner “Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.” “It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is ch…” “it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.” “Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”