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The land belongs to the future.

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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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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
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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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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.
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William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
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Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
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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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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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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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There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.
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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
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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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A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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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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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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