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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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You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
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A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.
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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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New things are always ugly.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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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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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
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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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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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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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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.
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