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

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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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One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
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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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The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
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Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
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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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I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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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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The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.
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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.
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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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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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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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No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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