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• For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.

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  Strong, Lying, Winning

  Willa Cather (2000). “The Troll Garden: Short Stories”, p.18, U of Nebraska Press

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• Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

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  Humanity, Brutality, Sacred

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.220, U of Nebraska Press

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

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  Art, Children, Attitude

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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• youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

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  Hurt, Betrayed, Likes

  Willa Cather (1937). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.

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  Flower, Dark, Sea

  Willa Cather (1999). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.279, U of Nebraska Press

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• Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

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  Tree, Today, Walking

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• When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

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  Kindness, People, Philanthropy

  My Mortal Enemy pt. 1, ch. 6 (1926)

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• A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

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  Food, Men, Years

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.38, Vintage

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• Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

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  Artist, Artistic, Born

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.114, Courier Corporation

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• Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.

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  Real, Years, Papa

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.

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  Children, Husband, Grandmother

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.136, U of Nebraska Press

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• Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

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  Art, Spring, Roots

  Commonweal, 17 Apr. 1936

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• There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

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  Country, Giving, Earth

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!

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  People, Share, Terrible

  Willa Cather (1993). “O Pioneers!”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• Only the stupid and the phlegmatic should teach.

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  Stupid, Should, Teach

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.54, Vintage

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• The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.

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  Eye, Air, Blue

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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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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• Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

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  Summer, Dream, Art

  Willa Cather (1986). “Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929”, p.52, U of Nebraska Press

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• The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

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  Summer, Moon, Sky

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.

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  Family, Strong, Hatred

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.141, Vintage

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• They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

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  Land, Rivers, Water

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.189, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

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  May, Pages, Felt

  "My Ántonia".

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• Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.

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  Inspiration, Eye, Artist

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

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• Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

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  Growth, Artistic, Truthfulness

  1915 The Song of the Lark, pt.6, ch.11.

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

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  Luck, World, Bad Luck

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.24, Vintage

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