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Willa Cather Biography

Willa Sibert Cather (/ˈkæðər/; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.

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Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

Different, Everything, Findings, Religion, Seeking

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

Cranky, Father, Fathers, Men, Right

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Country, Lying, Old, Stale, Winter

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Cold, Death, Die, Life, Lived, Spiritual

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 as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

Dark, Flooded, Moon, Ones, Pale, Stars

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

Close, Forest, Heart, Love, Nature

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

Art, Breakfast Food, Ought, Soap, Stories, Writing

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Love, Miracles, Sympathy, Valentines Day

I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.

Bigs, Fellow, Fellows, Killed, Snake, Snakes

Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.

Artist, Eye, Inspiration, Sty, True

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

Boots, Like, Matter, Shabby, Shoes

The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.

Attitude, Gift, Heart, Language, Notebook

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

Domestic, Horizon, Ominous, Personality, Storm

New things are always ugly.

New Things, Newness, Things, Ugly

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

Hunger, Incentive, Incentives, Introspection, Powerful

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Fiercely, Human, Life, Niece, Three, Wise

The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

Art, Blue, Full, Reflection, Spring, Sunlight

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Finds, Pain, People, Surface, Tougher

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 left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

Bottomless, Drop, Inspirational, Kindness, Like, People

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

Certain, Companion, Friends, Ideas, Older, Thoughts

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