Willa Cather Quotes
The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
Quotes to Explore
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing.
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I actually have all these tapes, from when I was five, from when I was 10, and from when I was 15, that don't really have to do anything with each other, but they're sort of archeological in my musical history.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
