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> [The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/the-stupid-believe-that-to-be-truthful-is-easy-only-the-artist-the/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

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> [“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/artistic-growth-is-more-than-it-is-anything-else-a-refining-of-the/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

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> [Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/every-artist-knows-that-there-is-no-such-thing-as-freedom-in-art-the/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

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## More by Willa Cather

> [The end is nothing; the road is all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/the-end-is-nothing-the-road-is-all/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/of-all-the-bewildering-things-about-a-new-country-the-absence-of/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/success-is-less-interesting-than-struggle-there-is-great-pleasure-in/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/i-only-knew-the-schoolbooks-said-he-died-in-the-wilderness-of-a/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/have-the-last-word-ma-m-he-said-cheerfully-it-s-a-lady-s-privilege/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> ["More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/more-than-him-has-done-that-said-antonia-sadly-and-the-girls-murmured/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/nothing-mattered-but-writing-books-and-living-the-kind-of-life-that/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/money-and-office-and-success-are-the-consolations-of-impotence/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/but-she-still-had-that-something-which-fires-the-imagination-could/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/you-remember-how-homesick-i-used-to-get-and-what-long-talks-we-used/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/he-placed-this-book-in-my-grandmother-s-hands-looked-at-her/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/the-sincerity-of-feeling-that-is-possible-between-a-writer-and-a/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/one-realizes-that-human-relationships-are-the-tragic-necessity-of/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/our-tree-became-the-talking-tree-of-the-fairy-tale-legends-and/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

> [“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/isn-t-it-queer-there-are-only-two-or-three-human-stories-and-they-go/)

[Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/)

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