All Willa Cather Quotes
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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Death
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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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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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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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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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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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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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
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Love
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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.
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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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Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
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