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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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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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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
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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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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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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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Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
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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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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
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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.
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
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The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
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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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It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.
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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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