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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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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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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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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
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One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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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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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
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Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible they often flourish and grow strong together.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.
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