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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

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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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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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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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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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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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The land belongs to the future.
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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
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Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.
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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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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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