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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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Sometimes, I ventured, it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
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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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Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
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We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
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Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding.
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The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
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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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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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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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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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