Willa Cather Quotes

American - Author | December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

BestStormCalmLearnYouThings

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

LoveValentine's DayGreatWishes

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

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MemoriesBetterHappenAnythingThan

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

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RelationshipHeartForestDarkOwn

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

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DeathColdDieLivedShallHaving

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

Willa Cather

KindnessPeopleMomentsSecurity

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

Willa Cather

FamilyFriendshipMenFriendsKnow

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

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QualityHandHumanThingsMade

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

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PeopleThinkNewGiveFactWord

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

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AchievementProcessMeasureDesire

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

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HappinessGreatSomethingComplete

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

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LiveGreatWorldDreamMatterDeal

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