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• Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

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  Father, Men, Cranky

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

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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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  Country, Depressing, Absence

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.947, eBookIt.com

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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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• Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

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  Art, Simplicity, Should

  Willa Cather (2014). “A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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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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• We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.

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  People, Faces, Cigar

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.

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  Writing, Accomplishment, Novelists

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.40, U of Nebraska Press

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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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• 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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• She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.

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  Autumn, Apples, Hands

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.566, eBookIt.com

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

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  People, Tree, Social

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

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  Play, Envy, Loyal

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.77, Vintage

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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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• Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

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  Different, Findings, Seeking

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

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