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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

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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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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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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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
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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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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
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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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On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
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I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
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Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
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Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.
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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
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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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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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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
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