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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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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.
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Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.
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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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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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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything I begin just where I left off.
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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
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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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There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.
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Success is never so interesting as struggle
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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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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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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