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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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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.
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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
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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 only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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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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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
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I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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