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Willa Cather Quotes

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947

Topics

Country New Human Things Depressing

I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our business, and we had grown substantially here.

Business Back London Cheerful Coming

I've been doing this since I was a kid. Then, I got in trouble for painting like this on the wall, but now, I get paid for it.

Painting Doing Wall Trouble Now Kid

I'm an old fashioned theater major at heart.

Heart Old Theater Major

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

Robert Anton Wilson

Path Forward Universe Back Down Way

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

Artists Temperament Afford Few

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Augusta Ward

Marriage Write Clearly Fiction Made

People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.

Martin O'Malley

Leader People Looking Push Powerful

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.

Children Anger Sacrifice War King

My job is to make people laugh. If I've upset them instead, then I haven't done my job properly.

Dominic Holland

Job People Laugh Done Upset Make

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

City Looking Drive Thought Name You

I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.

Memories Job Growing Up Doctor Feel

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Painting World Rest Universe Harmony

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