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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.

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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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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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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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Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
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There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.
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One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
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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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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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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
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It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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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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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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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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