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What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.

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William Stafford
Age: 79 †
Born: 1914
Born: January 17
Died: 1993
Died: August 28
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The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
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One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.
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I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
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When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.
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The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And things you know before you hear them — those are you, those are why you are in the world.
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...What you fear will not go away it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
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If you can say it, it begins to exist.
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