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Day Quotes by William Stafford
- Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
- It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
- I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
- They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter…
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