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

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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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I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
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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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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
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In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.
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The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.
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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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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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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.
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