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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

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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Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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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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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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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.
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The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
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William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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New things are always ugly.
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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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