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Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding.
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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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
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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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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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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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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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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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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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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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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.
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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.
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