Quotes by Willa Cather

Willa Cather

“More than him has done that,” said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

Done

Girl

Heart

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A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

Character

Creative

Lying

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A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

Attitude

Long

Men

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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

Art

Giving

Soul

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All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be ‘like Paris handsome and like Hector brave’.

Brave

Paris

Southern

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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. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Captivity

Sports

Voice

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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

Art

Ends

Men

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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

Art

Should

Simplicity

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

Artistic

Growth

Truthfulness

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Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

Book

Brother

Eye

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