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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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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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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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