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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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Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding.
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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted and nobody knew why.
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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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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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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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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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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