Willa Cather Short Quotes

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A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

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The forest stretched no living man knew how far.

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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange!

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What if — what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

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Where there is great love there are always miracles.

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I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.

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She would take any amount of trouble to avoid trouble.

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Youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

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Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

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Oh, this is the joy of the rose;
That it blows,
And goes.

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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

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Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

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

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Ain't it wonderful, Jim, how much people can mean to each other?

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Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

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Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

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Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

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Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

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Money? Oh yes, he would like to have some, but not what went with it.

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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

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When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

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In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

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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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The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.

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

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