The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

—Willa Cather

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About Willa Cather

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Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One...

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Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.

—Willa Cather

He acted too often without counting the cost, from some dazzling conception—one could not say from impulse, for impulses are from the heart. He liked to reorganize and change things for the sake of change, to make a fine gesture. He destroyed the old before he had clearly thought out the new.

—Willa Cather

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

—Willa Cather

Security is a kind of death.

—Willa Cather

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

—Willa Cather

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