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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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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible they often flourish and grow strong together.
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There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
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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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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose That it blows, And goes.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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