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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

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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In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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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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The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.
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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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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.
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From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.
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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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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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