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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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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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William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
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