"I have sometimes thought that his bursts of……" — Willa Cather
"I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication."
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138 Quotes by Willa Cather
Willa Cather has 138 quotes on this site.
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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile,…
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had…
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power…
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More Bursts Quotes
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A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be…
— Julie Andrews
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Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night…
— Coventry Patmore
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Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience…
— Philip Pullman
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I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or…
— Harry Connick, Jr.
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I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
— Shelley Winters
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk.…
— Eva Ibbotson
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Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and…
— Evander Holyfield
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Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has…
— Mia Kirshner
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These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely…
— John N. Bahcall
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble,…
— Ron Paul
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Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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