The end is nothing, the road is all.

—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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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

—Willa Cather

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

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

—Willa Cather

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

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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

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What is more beautiful than a road? It is the symbol and the image of an active, varied life.

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I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

—Nicholas Sparks in Dear John

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If you can look at yourself without condemning what you see, without comparing yourself with somebody else, without wishing to be more beautiful or more virtuous; if you can just observe what you are and move with it, then you will find that it is possible to go infinitely far. Then there is no end to the journey, and that is the mystery, the beauty of it.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things

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