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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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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Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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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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The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.
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Look at my papa here he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.
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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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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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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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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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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
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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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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.
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