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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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Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
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Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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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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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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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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[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.
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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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Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
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Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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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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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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