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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

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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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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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More than him has done that, said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
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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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Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
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Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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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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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
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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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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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