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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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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.
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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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It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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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.
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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
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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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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.
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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
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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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Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.
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Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
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Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.
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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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