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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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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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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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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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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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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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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
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The end is nothing the road is all.
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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
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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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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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