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Letter "W" » Willa Sibert Cather Quotes
«Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
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fiercely, Happened before, larks, notes, queer, repeating, The Larks
«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.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
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commendable, intrinsic value, manufacture, soap, standardized
«Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.»
«[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
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artistic, conventions, detail, nearly, preserve, simplified, simplifies, simplify, simplifying, the Convention, the conventions
«The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
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Church,
Miracles
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finer, healing, The Miracles
«Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
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hangs, Long Winter, old country, shabbier, shabby, sullen, towns
«Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
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Neighbors
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commonplace, conceit, disliked, puzzled, remark, uncertain
«The end is nothing; the road is all.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
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«Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.»
«The universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change.»
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