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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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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Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?
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Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.
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life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
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Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.
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