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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 pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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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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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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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
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Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding.
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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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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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible they often flourish and grow strong together.
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The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
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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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