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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
Willa Cather
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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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Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
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Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
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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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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.
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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.
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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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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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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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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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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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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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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