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

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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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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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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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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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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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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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