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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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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Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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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 trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.
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The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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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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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
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The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose That it blows, And goes.
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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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A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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