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Out Quotes by Willa Cather
- The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found…
- 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…
- Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination…
- Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for…
- Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
- Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never…
- There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
- 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 somehow…
- 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…
- If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my…
- 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…
- 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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