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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

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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Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
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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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I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
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Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
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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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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose That it blows, And goes.
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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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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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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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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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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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The prayers of all good people are good.
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