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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Cather
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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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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
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This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.
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Sometimes, I ventured, it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
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Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
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Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.
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In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.
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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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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.
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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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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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