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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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Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
Willa Cather
The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
Willa Cather
A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
Willa Cather
I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.
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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
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The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
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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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Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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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.
Willa Cather
It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
Willa Cather
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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If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather
One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
Willa Cather
Too much information is rather deadening.
Willa Cather
