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Willa Cather Quotes


An American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark.
Willa Seibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska; she lived in New York for most of her adult life and writing career.

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Art it seems to me should simplify.
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Where there is great love there are always wishes.
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I tell you there is no such thing as creative hate!
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There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.
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« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2015, 08:16:13 PM »
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
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« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2015, 08:18:02 PM »
No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.
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« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2015, 08:18:32 PM »
There is only one big thing-desire. And before it when it is big all is little.
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« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2015, 08:19:14 PM »
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
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« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2015, 08:19:44 PM »
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2015, 08:21:02 PM »
Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2015, 08:21:30 PM »
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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« Reply #11 on: November 30, 2015, 08:21:58 PM »
I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.
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« Reply #12 on: November 30, 2015, 08:23:00 PM »
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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