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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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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.
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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
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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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Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
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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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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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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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A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.
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If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.
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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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From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted and nobody knew why.
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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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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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