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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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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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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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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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To fulfil the dreams of one's youth that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
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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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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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