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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 a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.
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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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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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The prayers of all good people are good.
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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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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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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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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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin a bloody man, vicious a coarse man, vulgar.
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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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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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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.
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Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible they often flourish and grow strong together.
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