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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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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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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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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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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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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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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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
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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 trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
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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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Success is never so interesting as struggle
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.
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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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The land belongs to the future.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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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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Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
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