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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

Willa Cather

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
Author
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Journalist
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Willa Sibert Cather
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Extravagance
Detail
Vulgar
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Details

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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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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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For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.
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The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
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Success is never so interesting as struggle
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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
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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 land belongs to the future.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)
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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
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Sometimes, I ventured, it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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