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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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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.
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Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin a bloody man, vicious a coarse man, vulgar.
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual those who were not have been long forgotten.
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If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.
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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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The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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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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