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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

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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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Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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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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