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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 was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
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The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.
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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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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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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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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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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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