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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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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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The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual those who were not have been long forgotten.
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I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
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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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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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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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The prayers of all good people are good.
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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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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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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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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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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.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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