Willa Cather Quotes - Page 7

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• Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.

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  Falling In Love, Real, Mean

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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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• 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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• Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.

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  Country, Time, Long

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.894, eBookIt.com

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• Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Public Opinion

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

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  Ideas, Certain, Companion

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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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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• All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

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  Sports, Voice, Captivity

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.

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  Book, Men, Air

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.2, eBookIt.com

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• One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

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  Book, Years, Rivers

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• No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.

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  Mean, Pride, Expression

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• [Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

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  Boys, Men, Hands

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.151, U of Nebraska Press

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• New things are always ugly.

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  Ugly, New Things, Newness

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

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• The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

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  Heart, Too Much, Alive

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

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  Land, Pioneers, Littles

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

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  Heart, Goes On, Matter

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.

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  1927 Death Comes to the Archbishop, prologue.

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• The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

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  People, May, Littles

  Willa Cather (2000). “The Troll Garden: Short Stories”, p.74, U of Nebraska Press

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• It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

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  Youth

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.36, U of Nebraska Press

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• A burnt dog dreads the fire.

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  Dog, Fire, Dread

  Jane Austen, L. M. Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë (2011). “25 Favorite Novels”, p.3994, Smashbooks

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• It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its ineffaceable failures closes about us like the walls of that old torture chamber of the Inquisition.

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  Wall, Failure, Cutting

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.134, Wildside Press LLC

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• If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
  “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

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  Giving Up, Hate, Fire

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1481, eBookIt.com

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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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• Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

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  Prayer, People, Said

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• The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

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  Two Friends, Silence, Pioneers

  Willa Cather (2009). “O Pioneers!: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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