Willa Cather Quotes - Page 8

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

  Willa Cather

  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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• There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.

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  Color, Looks, Faces

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

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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

  Willa Cather

  Prayer, People, Said

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• I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.

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  Women, Writing, Wine

  Willa Cather (1993). “Willa Cather”

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• Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

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  Thinking, Hands, Talent

  Willa Cather (1967). “The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896”, p.408, U of Nebraska Press

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• A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

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  Shoes, Matter, Rooms

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.59, U of Nebraska Press

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• Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

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  Rain, Paris, Hard

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

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• This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

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  Running, Horse, Land

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

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  Girl, Would Be, World

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.

  Willa Cather

  Sports, Mean, Tiny

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

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• William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

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  Personality, Storm, Horizon

  Willa Cather (2014). “A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

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  Vanity, Pity, Easy

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.73, Wildside Press LLC

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• In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

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  Desire, Quests, Might

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

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• The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.

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  Artist, Men, Long

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.26, U of Nebraska Press

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• Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

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  Stronger, Building, Kinship

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.270, Vintage

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• Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.

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  Drama, Emotional, Giving

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.50, U of Nebraska Press

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• A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

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  Lying, Character, Creative

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

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• I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.

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  Snakes, Bigs, Fellows

  Willa Cather (2013). “My Antonia Thrift Study Edition”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

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  Skeletons, Sea, Feet

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

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• In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

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  Book, Stills, Lucy

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.3, Vintage

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• I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

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  Book, Fifteen, Firsts

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