American - Author | December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947
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.
Willa Cather
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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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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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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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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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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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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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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
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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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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
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