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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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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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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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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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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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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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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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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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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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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible they often flourish and grow strong together.
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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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To fulfil the dreams of one's youth that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.
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