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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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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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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
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There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.
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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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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.
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Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
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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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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.
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