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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.


Willa Cather

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That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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OSCAR WILDE Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.
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WILLA CATHER That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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WILLA CATHER No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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WILLA CATHER Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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WILLA CATHER A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
WILLA CATHER I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
WILLA CATHER A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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WILLA CATHER Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to ...
WILLA CATHER That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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WILLA CATHER When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason h...
WILLA CATHER The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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WILLA CATHER Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
WILLA CATHER The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi...
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WILLA CATHER The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.
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WILLA CATHER The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire...
WILLA CATHER Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a sing...
WILLA CATHER It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the on...
WILLA CATHER I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
WILLA CATHER To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
WILLA CATHER There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
WILLA CATHER She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with ...
WILLA CATHER Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to ...
WILLA CATHER The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
WILLA CATHER Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
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WILLA CATHER He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the...
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WILLA CATHER The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.
WILLA CATHER Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
WILLA CATHER It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But o...
WILLA CATHER Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.
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WILLA CATHER We were examining a big hole with two entrances. The burrow sloped into the ground at a gentle angle...
WILLA CATHER Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
WILLA CATHER Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar b...
WILLA CATHER Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love!
WILLA CATHER One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you a...
WILLA CATHER Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
WILLA CATHER There was a basic harmony between Antonia and her mistress [Mrs. Harling]. They had strong, independ...
WILLA CATHER Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully, "It's a lady's priviledge.
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AMBROSE BIERCE And these Things,
which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient,
they lo...
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MARK TWAIN Regular feet can't be affected by irregular shoes.
CHINESE PROVERBS We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
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ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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