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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
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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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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.
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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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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
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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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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
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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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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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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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