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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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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
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To fulfil the dreams of one's youth that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.
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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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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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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
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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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