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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

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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 higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.
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Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
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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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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
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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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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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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
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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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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
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Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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