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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

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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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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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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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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
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In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.
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