The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

—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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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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What was any art but a mold 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.

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

—Willa Cather

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The end is nothing, the road is all.

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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

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