Willa Cather Quotes

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

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  Inspirational, Summer, Nature

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

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  What If, Sweetheart, Ifs

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.155, Vintage

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• The end is nothing; the road is all.

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  Life, Ends

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.76, U of Nebraska Press

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  Success is never so interesting as struggle

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  Success, Giving Up, Struggle

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.7, U of Nebraska Press

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• Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.

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  Miracle, Perception, Turns

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• Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

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  Sky, World, Earth

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.232, Vintage

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• Where there is great love there are always miracles.

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  Love, Sympathy, Valentines Day

  "Death Comes for the Archbishop". Book by Willa Cather, 1927.

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• Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

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  Thinking, Talking, People

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

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  Natural, Deals

  Willa Cather, L. Brent Bohlke (1986). “Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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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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  Life, Wise, Niece

  O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 4 (1913)

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• People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

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  Pain, People, Surface

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it
  and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.

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  Land, People, Pioneers

  Zane Grey, Max Brand, Owen Wister, James Fenimore Cooper, B. M. Bower (2017). “60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures & much more: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, The Hidden Children, The Law of the Land, Heart of the West, A Texas Cow-Boy, The Prairie…”, p.6427, e-artnow

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

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  Love, Remember, Admire

  Willa Cather, Liza McAlister Williams (1985). “Willa Cather's My Ántonia”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

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• That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

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  Happiness, Spiritual, Purpose

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Ántonia (我的安東妮亞)”, p.46, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• [Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.

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  Sky, Water, Forgiving

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

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  Dream, Men, Youth

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.278, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.

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  Long, Nebraska, States

  Willa Cather (2016). “My Antonia / O Pioneers!”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

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  Storm, Calm

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• Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

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  Memories, Reality, Moments

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.625, Simon and Schuster

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• The land belongs to the future.

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  Land

  Willa Cather (2016). “My Antonia / O Pioneers!”, p.490, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

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  Mean, Needed

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

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  Country, Stars, Land

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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

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  Eye, Flesh, Spirit

  Willa Cather (2009). “O Pioneers!”, p.224, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

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  Life, Death, Spiritual

  Death Comes for the Archbishop bk. 9 (1927)

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• The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

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  Writing, Fighting, Caring

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Selected Letters of Willa Cather”, p.224, Vintage

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