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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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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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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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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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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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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything I begin just where I left off.
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It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.
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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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Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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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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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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The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.
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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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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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