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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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Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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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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We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
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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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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.
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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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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
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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. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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