life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities, where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Montaigne says somewhere that in early youth the joy of life lies in the feet.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Theoretically he knew that life is possible, may even be pleasant, without joy, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“My big rattler was old, and had led too easy a life; there was not much fight in him. He had probably… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“He came to be very glad that he had known her, and that she had had a hand in breaking him in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“THERE was a curious social situation in Black Hawk. All the young men felt the attraction of the fine, well-set-up country girls… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“...You know that my spells come from God, and that I would not harm any living creature. You believe that everyone should… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“One realizes that even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Inside of living people, too, captives languished. Yes, inside of people who walked and worked in the broad sun, there were captives… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two! — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or property, but for others fate is what happens to their… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Every morning the sun came up a red ball, quickly drank the dew, and started a quivering excitement in all living things.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“This was a fine life, certainly, but it wasn't the kind of life he had wanted to live. I wondered whether the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“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… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“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… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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