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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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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Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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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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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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The land belongs to the future.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
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Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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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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For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.
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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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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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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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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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