Willa Cather Quotes
Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
Quotes to Explore
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.
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I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
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The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.
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I would never be her mate in a million years! Carla's a nightmare and annoys the hell out of me. She's the type of person who creates drama wherever she goes, and I'm not like that at all. Plus, she'd probably try to steal my fella!
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He awoke-and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could almost feel the enveloping presence of the other world, which only Government agents and high officials had seen. A clerk like himself? Not likely.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
