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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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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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For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.
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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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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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Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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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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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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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
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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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The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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