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Them Quotes by Willa Cather
- Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
- I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all…
- 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…
- When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has…
- When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
- Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
- 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…
- 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…
- I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
- I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The…
- I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and…
- One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's…
- If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster