Willa Cather Quotes
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Quotes to Explore
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I love writing songs.
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
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'It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? - sleep.'
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'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'
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My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things.
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I have had window braces smashed in the front of my car, several times. They fail all the time in the front.
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Communists must use the democratic method of persuasion and education when working among the laboring people and must on no account resort to commandism or coercion. The Chinese Communist Party faithfully adheres to this Marxist-Leninist principle.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
