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Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
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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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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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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I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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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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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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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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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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You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
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The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.
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