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

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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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
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If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.
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The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.
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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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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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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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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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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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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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Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
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If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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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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