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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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Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
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One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.
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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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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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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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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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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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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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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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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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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.
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