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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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 two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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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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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
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There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
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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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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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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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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.
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