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When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.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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There seemed to be nothing to see no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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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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It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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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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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
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I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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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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