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Country Quotes by Willa Cather
- Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
- Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
- There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season,…
- There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not…
- Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not…
- There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
- The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
- Jim, she said earnestly, if I was put down there in the middle of the night, I could find my way all over that little…
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