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Willa Cather quotes about men

American Author December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947

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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. Willa Cather
THERE was a curious social situation in Black Hawk. All the young men felt the attraction of the fine, well-set-up country girls who had come to town to earn a living, and, in nearly every case, to help the father struggle out of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school. Willa Cather
But the great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boy's mouth had become so bitter; because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "And that's what makes men happy, believing in the mystery and..."
And that's what makes men happy, believing in the mystery and importance of their own individual lives. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better..."
Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. Willa Cather
After supper was over and the toasts had been drunk, the boy Pablo was called in to play for the company while the gentlemen smoked. . . there was softness and languor in the wire strings--but there was also a kind of madness; the recklessness, the call of wild countries which all these men had felt or followed in one way or another. Through clouds of cigar smoke, the scout and the soldiers, the Mexican rancheros and the priests, sat silently watching the bent head and crouching shoulders of... Willa Cather

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