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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

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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 pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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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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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
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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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The end is nothing the road is all.
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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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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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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
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Sometimes, I ventured, it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
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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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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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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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