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Old Quotes by Willa Cather
- Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
- The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
- Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
- Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin…
- A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
- He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into…
- It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional…
- Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in…
- Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
- He had seen the end of an era,the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So…
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