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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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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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You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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