Willa Cather Quotes

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Willa Cather

Profession : Author

Birth : December 7, 1873

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Willa Cather

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

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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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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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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

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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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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

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