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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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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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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.
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Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
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I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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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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One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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The prayers of all good people are good.
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