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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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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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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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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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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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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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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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose That it blows, And goes.
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This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
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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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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.
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They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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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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