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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

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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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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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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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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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The prayers of all good people are good.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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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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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
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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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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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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
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