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All Quotes by author - Willa Cather
" 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. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. "
Intelligence
Wild
Talent
" A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one. "
Matter
Old
Like
" Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. "
Achievement
Desire
Measure
" Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. "
Than
Time
Artist
" Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. "
Think
Fact
Give
" I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. "
More
Nature
Like
" I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. "
Lived
Having
Shall
" It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. "
Dream
Live
Matter
" Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. "
Age
Writer
Works
" No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. "
Another
Security
Build
" Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. "
Country
Absence
Human
" Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. "
Family
Men
Know
" Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. "
Even
Rains
Paris
" Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. "
Better
Some
Memories
" 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, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. "
Man
Dark
Arrogance
" Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. "
Women
Wonder
God
" That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. "
Complete
Happiness
Great
" The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. "
Matter
Freedom
Much
" The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. "
Dead
Living
Young
" The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. "
Girl
Fact
Never
" The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. "
Forest
Dark
Own
" The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. "
Things
Hand
Human
" 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. "
Power
Healing
Moment
" There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. "
Two
Stories
Three
" There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. "
You
Calm
Best
" The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. "
Great
Stupid
Believe
" The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. "
World
Animal
Edge
" The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. "
Paper
Literature
Great
" To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. "
Character
Best
View
" What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. "
Moment
Art
Sweet
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