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Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

«That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | About: Happiness | Keywords: dissolved
«I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | Keywords: cold
«Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | About: Memory, Realism, Reality | Keywords: realities
«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.»
«I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.»
«I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.»
«Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.»
«I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.»
«Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.»
«One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.»

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