Willa Cather Quotes - Page 7

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• I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

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  Stars, Dark, Moon

  Willa Cather (1998). “Obscure Destinies”, p.175, U of Nebraska Press

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• There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

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  Spring, Sunshine, Clouds

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

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  Hate, Creative, Hatred

  The Song of the Lark pt. 1 (1915)

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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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• 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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• This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

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  Summer, Lying, Reality

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.463, eBookIt.com

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• Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to
  leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.

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  Dark, People, House

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.124, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.

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  Mother, Boys, Like Her

  Willa Cather (2008). “My Antonia (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.464, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

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  Children, Blow, Hands

  Willa Cather (2010). “Vintage Cather”, p.174, Vintage

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• A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

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  Attitude, Men, Long

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.77, U of Nebraska Press

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• If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

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  Giving, Noble, Achieve

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

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• Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?

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  Beautiful, Secret, Feds

  Willa Cather (2003). “A Lost Lady”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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• In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.

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  Falling In Love, People, World

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.275, U of Nebraska Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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