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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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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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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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 shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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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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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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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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On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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