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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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New things are always ugly.
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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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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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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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Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
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We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding.
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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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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
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The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.
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A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
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Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.
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