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Great Quotes by Willa Cather
- Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
- The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
- The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and…
- That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
- It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
- Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
- He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of…
- The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did…
- In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely…
- The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. Whenit flung wide its cloak and stepped…
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