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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

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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 trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
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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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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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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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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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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.
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In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Success is never so interesting as struggle
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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
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