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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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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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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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Look at my papa here he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.
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Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding.
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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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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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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
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We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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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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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
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