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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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Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
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Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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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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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
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In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
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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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Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
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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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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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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
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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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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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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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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
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