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Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
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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Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
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I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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