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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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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose That it blows, And goes.
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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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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.
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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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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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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible they often flourish and grow strong together.
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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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Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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