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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

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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Storm
Calm

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Oh, this is the joy of the rose That it blows, And goes.
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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything I begin just where I left off.
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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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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
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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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The prayers of all good people are good.
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The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual those who were not have been long forgotten.
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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
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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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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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