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Oh, he's an old friend from the West," said Eden easily. "I won't introduce you, because he doesn't like people. He's a recluse. Good-bye.
— Willa Cather
Even after I had pounded his ugly head flat, his body kept on coiling and winding, doubling and falling back on itself.
— Willa Cather
The spark in his eye, which is one's very self, caught the spark in hers that was herself, and for a moment they looked into each other's natures.
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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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To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
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New things are always ugly.
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Father Latour began to tell them about his friendly relations with Protestants in Ohio, but they had not room in their minds for two ideas.
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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And that's what makes men happy, believing in the mystery and importance of their own individual lives.
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They [her eyes] were big and warm and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood.
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It's awfully easy to rush into a profession you don't really like, and awfully hard to get out of it.
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The way, they were
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Success is never so interesting as struggle
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One is best in one's own country.
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You must pray for him, my child. It is to such as he that our Blessed Mother comes nearest.
— Willa Cather
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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You feel that, properly, Alexandra's house is the big-out-of-doors, and that it is in the soil that she expresses herself.
-O Pioneers — Willa Cather
-O Pioneers — Willa Cather
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
— Willa Cather
Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather
— Zoraida Cordova
What would we do together?" Cath asked. "He'd want to go to the bar,and I'd want to stay home and write fanfiction.
— Rainbow Rowell
You never really knew a man, he said, until you saw him die
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During those last weeks of the Bishop's life he thought very little about death; it was the Past he was leaving. The future would take care of itself.
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I had the sense of coming home to myself, and of having found out what a little circle man's experience is.
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Grandfather's farm sometime before daybreak, after
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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
— Willa Cather
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
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Things away from home often look better than they are.
— Willa Cather
I want to pretend this didn't happen."
"Okay. — Rainbow Rowell
"Okay. — Rainbow Rowell
But I can't help feeling scared when I think how I will miss you- more than you will ever know.
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When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather
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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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Doctrine is well enough for the wise, Jean; but the miracle is something we can hold in our hands and love.
— Willa Cather
Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
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There is no God but one God and Art is his revealer; that's my creed and I'll follow it to the end, to a hotter place than Pittsburgh if need be.
— Willa Cather
Well, this I know: our best years are when we're working hardest and going right ahead when we can hardly see our way out.
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It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.
— Willa Cather
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
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There are times when one's vitality is too high to be clouded, too elastic to stay down.
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The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.
— Willa Cather
Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
— Willa Cather
On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
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I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
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There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.
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The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.
— Willa Cather
All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
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We will never lose the land.
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
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This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.
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Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love!
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Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
— Willa Cather
Have you met Cather?" Levi said to Reagan, his face still shining with amusement. "She spits hot fire.
— Rainbow Rowell
A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
— Willa Cather
He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer.
— Willa Cather
The carnations in his coat were drooping with the cold, he noticed, their red glory all over.
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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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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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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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Youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
— Willa Cather
It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
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