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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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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
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The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
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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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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.
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We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
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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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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 history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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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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When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather
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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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