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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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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A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
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If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
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This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
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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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Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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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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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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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
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Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
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Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible they often flourish and grow strong together.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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