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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 land belongs to the future.
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No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
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A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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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 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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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.
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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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For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.
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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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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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Success is never so interesting as struggle
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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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