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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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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
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Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.
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New things are always ugly.
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything I begin just where I left off.
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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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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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