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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.

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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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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.
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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.
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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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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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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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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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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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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.
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