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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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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Dissolving
Spirituality
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You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
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From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted and nobody knew why.
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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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Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.
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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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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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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.
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Success is never so interesting as struggle
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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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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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual those who were not have been long forgotten.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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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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The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.
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