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Willa Cather quotes

American Author December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947

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The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!) Willa Cather
Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in peace. She flecks her whip upon flesh that is more alive, upon that stream of hungry boys and girls who tramp the streets of every city, recognizable by their pride and discontent, who are the Future, and who possess the treasure of creative power. 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: "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and..."
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. Willa Cather
Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it. Willa Cather
It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends? Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "Schools are not meant to make boys happy, Ccile, but to teach..."
Schools are not meant to make boys happy, Ccile, but to teach them to do without happiness. 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
To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and..."
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Cather
My dear," he sighed when the lights were turned on and they both looked older, "it's been a mistake, our having a family and writing histories and getting middle-aged. We should have been picturesquely shipwrecked together when we were young. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this..."
People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. Willa Cather
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days... Willa Cather
Father Latour began to tell them about his friendly relations with Protestants in Ohio, but they had not room in their minds for two ideas. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I..."
The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather

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