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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

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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 ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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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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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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The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
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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?
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