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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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