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


Willa Sibert Cather

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Where there is great love there are always miracles. -Willa Cather.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is ...
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I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER
There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a...
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Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to ...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER
[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of f...
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A fo...
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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'...
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In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER
The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.
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That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anyt...
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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world, but here the earth is the floor of the sky.
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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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The end is nothing; the road is all.
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The universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change.
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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman
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When there is great love there are always miracles.
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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
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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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Where are the loves that we have loved beforeWhen once we are alone, and shut the door?
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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they're in love with somebody...
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason ...
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She heard him give his name, and came forward holding out her hand. "Is it you, indeed, Professor Wi...
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and a...
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Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others f...
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fi...
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Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a busine...
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I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the s...
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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them ...
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One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.
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Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
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Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there -- that, we may say, is create...
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I fe...
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose;That it blows,And goes.
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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange!.
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No one person knows much more about writing than another. I expect that when people think they know ...
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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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No one can build her security on the nobleness of another person
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Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced a...
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Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?
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I never thought I'd use so much of our youth. We're hanging on.
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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
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We would never have thought this would go on for so long.
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Artichokes are like humans: you have to go through so much to get to the heart.
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He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would...
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You get started on something and you go where it takes you and you set aside other things because yo...
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We wanted to see if women who had hysterectomies differed in some way from those who did not, and wh...
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I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the stru...
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Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
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But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't...
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My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.
My heart... not so much.
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If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never...
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If I was to expose truth of that on which the youth is subject to endure in group homes, all would s...
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It's a great prop; it's the ruby slippers of our time. It represents the love that would never go aw...
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It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
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Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
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Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO
We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
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Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO
I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
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We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
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