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[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.
Willa Cather
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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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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
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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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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
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Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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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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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.
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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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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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Too much information is rather deadening.
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Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible they often flourish and grow strong together.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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