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Famous Willa Cather Quotes
“Success is never so interesting as struggle”
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
“Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world”
“People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.”
“Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.”
“If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry”
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.”
“Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.”
“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.”
“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”