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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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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
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Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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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.
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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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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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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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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin a bloody man, vicious a coarse man, vulgar.
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[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.
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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
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Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
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For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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