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Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

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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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In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything I begin just where I left off.
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I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
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Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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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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A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
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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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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.
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