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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
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We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.
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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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