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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

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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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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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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There seemed to be nothing to see no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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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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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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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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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather
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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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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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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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