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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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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.
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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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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin a bloody man, vicious a coarse man, vulgar.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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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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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
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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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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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