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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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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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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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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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Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
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If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
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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 more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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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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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
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I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
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