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Even after I had pounded his ugly head flat, his body kept on coiling and winding, doubling and falling back on itself.
— Willa Cather
When I'm in normal health, I'm a Presbyterian, but just now I feel that even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
— Willa Cather
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.
— Willa Cather
Oh, this is the joy of the rose;That it blows,
And goes. — Willa Cather
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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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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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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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.
— Willa Cather
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.
— Willa Cather
People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
— Willa Cather
The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
— Willa Cather
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
— Willa Cather
She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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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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The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
— Willa Cather
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather
— Zoraida Cordova
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
— Willa Cather
Things away from home often look better than they are.
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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
Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
— Willa Cather
His ideas about the future would not crystallize; the more he tried to think about it, the vaguer his conception if it became.
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Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
— Willa Cather
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
— Willa Cather
Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
— 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.
— Willa Cather
Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.
— Willa Cather
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
— Willa Cather
She had seen it when she was at home last summer - the hostility of comfortable, self-satisfied people toward serious effort.
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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
— Willa Cather
We sat down and made a nest in the long red grass. Yulka curled up like a baby rabbit and played with a grasshopper
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You never really knew a man, he said, until you saw him die
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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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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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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
— 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
We will never lose the land.
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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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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
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William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
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Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
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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 carnations in his coat were drooping with the cold, he noticed, their red glory all over.
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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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The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.
— Willa Cather
Youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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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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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
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A burnt dog dreads the fire.
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