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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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Willa Sibert Cather
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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
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It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.
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In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
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Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
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I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
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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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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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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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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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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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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
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