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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.
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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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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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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Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.
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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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You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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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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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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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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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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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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The prayers of all good people are good.
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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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