Walter Wangerin Quotes

Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.

Walter Wangerin

• Marriage
• Process
• Rhythm
• Wedges
• Disengagement

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• Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.

  

  Walter Wangerin
  • Marriage
  • Process
  • Rhythm