Willa Cather Quotes
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.
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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
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Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.
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Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.
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I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.
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The end is nothing; the road is all.
