In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

—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.

—Willa Cather

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.

—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

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It's been a lifelong problem of mine that those I've been closest to are the ones I've had the least influence on. My parents, my sister, my wife, even my cat—or maybe I should say especially my cat—have never really taken me seriously. That may help to explain why I finished up making a career of peddling my thoughts to the world in general. At least the world in general doesn't automatically dismiss anything coming from me, that is, so long as I say it in a neat epigram of 17 words or less.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behavior and the sphere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

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How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together.

—Sarra Manning in You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me

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