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Willa Cather Quotes

Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together Picture Quote #1

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody Picture Quote #1

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last Picture Quote #1

The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be Picture Quote #1

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back Picture Quote #1

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 out that one can never please the people they wanted to please Picture Quote #1

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Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer’s own, individual, unique Picture Quote #1

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don’t realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again Picture Quote #1

Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can’t stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting Picture Quote #1

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 goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him Picture Quote #1

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 me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton Picture Quote #1

Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that’s only because they’re not involved. Just because other people don’t understand your feelings doesn’t mean they’re not real or they’re not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don’t worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that Picture Quote #1

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Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together (Willa Cather Quotes) Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody (Willa Cather Quotes) She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last (Willa Cather Quotes) The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be (Willa Cather Quotes) There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back (Willa Cather Quotes) 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 out that one can never please the people they wanted to please (Willa Cather Quotes) Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer’s own, individual, unique (Willa Cather Quotes) The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don’t realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again (Willa Cather Quotes) Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can’t stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting (Willa Cather Quotes) 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 goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him (Willa Cather Quotes) 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 me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton (Willa Cather Quotes) Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that’s only because they’re not involved. Just because other people don’t understand your feelings doesn’t mean they’re not real or they’re not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don’t worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that (Willa Cather Quotes)

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