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The end is nothing the road is all.
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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We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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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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There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.
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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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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.
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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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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
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Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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