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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
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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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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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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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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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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose That it blows, And goes.
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
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In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.
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