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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
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The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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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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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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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.
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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 was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
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If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
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Success is never so interesting as struggle
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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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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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