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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
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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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The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
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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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Look at my papa here he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
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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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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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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 two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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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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We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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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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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.
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