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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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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin a bloody man, vicious a coarse man, vulgar.
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I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.
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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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One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.
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I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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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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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
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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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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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