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I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

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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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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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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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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
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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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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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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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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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