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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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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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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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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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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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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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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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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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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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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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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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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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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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