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

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  Wisdom, Country, Heart

  O Pioneers! pt. 1, ch. 5 (1913)

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

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  Artist, Secret, Artistry

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1799, eBookIt.com

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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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  Thinking, Hands, Talent

  Willa Cather (1967). “The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896”, p.408, U of Nebraska Press

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• "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

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  Girl, Heart, Done

  Willa Cather (2006). “My Antonia”, p.177, 1st World Publishing

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• Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

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  Book, Men, Games

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

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  Quality, Analysis, Firsts

  Willa Cather (2013). “Not Under Forty”, p.74, Knopf

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• There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the methods of operating manufactories and trades, and in minutely and unsparingly describing physical sensations. But is not realism, more than it is anything else, an attitude of mind on the part of the writer toward his material, a vague indication of the sympathy and candour with which he accepts, rather than chooses, his theme?

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  Attitude, Numbers, Mind

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.45, U of Nebraska Press

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• From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why.

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  Light, Two, Ears

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

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  Inspirational Love, Men, Thinking

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.159, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.

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  Breathing, Cities, This Generation

  "Willa Cather in Europe". Book by Willa Cather, 1956.

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

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  Girl, Would Be, World

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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

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  I Can

  Willa Cather (2006). “My Antonia - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.91, Prestwick House Inc

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• I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

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  Communication, Too Much, Heat

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.612, Simon and Schuster

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• Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

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  Powerful, Past, Long

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

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  Book, Wife, Tables

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