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Willa Sibert Cather föddes den December 7th 1873 och dog den 24 April 1947 - winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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 "You should not be discouraged; one doe not die of a cold," the priest said to the bishop. The old man smiled. "I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived."

 A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

 Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

 All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

 Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world, but here the earth is the floor of the sky.

 Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

 Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

 He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind

 I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

 I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

 I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

 I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

 I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

 I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

 I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.


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