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Inspirational Quotes by Willa Cather
- There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
- Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
- No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
- Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
- Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
- I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
- It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
- Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
- Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
- Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.
- It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
- I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
- The end is nothing; the road is all.
- The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
- An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
- The land belongs to the future.
- Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
- You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
- Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
- The prayers of all good people are good.
- I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
- I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
- Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
- People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
- Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento