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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.
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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The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.
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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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In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
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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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The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
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This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
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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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Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible they often flourish and grow strong together.
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We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.
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The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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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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