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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

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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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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
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For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.
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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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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 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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.
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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.
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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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