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If you don't know the kind of person I am
and I don't know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.


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Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

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It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

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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 Stafford

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Born: January 17, 1914
Died: August 28, 1993 (aged 79)
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