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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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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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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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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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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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The land belongs to the future.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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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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There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
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In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
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Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
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The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
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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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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
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It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.
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