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Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
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 not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.
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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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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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[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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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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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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To fulfil the dreams of one's youth that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.
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New things are always ugly.
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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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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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Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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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 fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.
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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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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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