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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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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
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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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The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.
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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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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
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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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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
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If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.
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From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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