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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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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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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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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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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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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin a bloody man, vicious a coarse man, vulgar.
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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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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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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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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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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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They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.
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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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