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The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Journalist
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Willa Sibert Cather
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Wild
Voice

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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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A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
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They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.
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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
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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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For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.
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Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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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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