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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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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There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.
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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
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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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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
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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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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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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
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Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose That it blows, And goes.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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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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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
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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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