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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
Willa Cather
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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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Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
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You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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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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In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.
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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.
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This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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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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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.
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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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A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.
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