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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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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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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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I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
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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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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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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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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
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I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.
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The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
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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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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.
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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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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
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