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A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.

William Sansom

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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William Sansom

William Sansom

Born: January 18, 1912
Died: April 20, 1976 (aged 64)
Bio: William Norman Trevor Sansom was a British novelist, travel and short story writer known for his highly descriptive prose style.
Known for:
  1. The Stories of William Sansom (1963)
  2. The face of innocence (1951)
  3. Various Temptations
  4. The Body (1949)
  5. The Blitz: Westminster at War (1947)

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