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• It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

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  Inspiring, Friends, Hurt

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.37, Vintage

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• The land belongs to the future.

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  Land

  Willa Cather (2016). “My Antonia / O Pioneers!”, p.490, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

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  Dream, Men, Youth

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.278, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

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  Storm, Calm

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• The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

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  Communication, Teaching, Age

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.749, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

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  Fate, Punishment, Wicked

  Willa Cather (2013). “One of Ours”, p.232, Courier Corporation

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• Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

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  Struggle, Interesting, Effort

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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. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

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  Inspirational, Kindness, People

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

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• Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

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  Thinking, Talking, People

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.

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  Art, Spring, Writing

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.47, U of Nebraska Press

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• Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

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  Imaginative, Personal Life

  Willa Cather (1954). “My Antonia”

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• The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

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  Voice, Captivity, Wild Things

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

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  People, Desire, World

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.5, U of Nebraska Press

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• The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

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  Love, Nature, Heart

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.93, U of Nebraska Press

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• The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

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  Girl, Ambition, Facts

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.368, U of Nebraska Press

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• When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

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  Eye, Flesh, Spirit

  Willa Cather (2009). “O Pioneers!”, p.224, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.

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  Long, Nebraska, States

  Willa Cather (2016). “My Antonia / O Pioneers!”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

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  Writing, Age, Fifteen

  Quoted in Rene¤ Rapin Willa Cather (1930).

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• The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

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  Writing, Fighting, Caring

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Selected Letters of Willa Cather”, p.224, Vintage

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• Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

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  Memories, Reality, Moments

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.625, Simon and Schuster

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• Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

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  Thinking, Giving, People

  "Four Letters: Escapism" (1936)

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• Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

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  Men, Exaggeration Is, Foolish Man

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.496, U of Nebraska Press

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• I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

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  Life, Death, Spiritual

  Death Comes for the Archbishop bk. 9 (1927)

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• 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.

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  Ego, Half, Pulling Away

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.18, Vintage

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• [Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.

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  Sky, Water, Forgiving

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

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