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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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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.
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Too much information is rather deadening.
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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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They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.
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How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!
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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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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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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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Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
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Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
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Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
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Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.
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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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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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