Quotes about Willa Cather

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument...

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The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope...

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

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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from...

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

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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way...

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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the...

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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write...

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

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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as...

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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets...

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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces...

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