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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

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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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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything I begin just where I left off.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
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If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.
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Look at my papa here he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.
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Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
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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 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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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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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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