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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

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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Children
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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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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.
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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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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything I begin just where I left off.
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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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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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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I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
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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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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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The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.
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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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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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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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