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![[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/815/814404/814404.webp "[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters Picture Quote #1")
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The end is nothing; the road is all (Willa Cather Quotes)
The voice is a wild thing. It can’t be bred in captivity (Willa Cather Quotes)
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin (Willa Cather Quotes)
The land belongs to the future (Willa Cather Quotes)
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past (Willa Cather Quotes)
The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!) (Willa Cather Quotes)
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing (Willa Cather Quotes)
In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one’s body feel light and one’s heart cry ‘To-day, to-day,’ like a child’s (Willa Cather Quotes)
[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters (Willa Cather Quotes)
The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate (Willa Cather Quotes)
Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count (Willa Cather Quotes)
He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer. (Willa Cather Quotes)
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. (Willa Cather Quotes)
A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. (Willa Cather Quotes)
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away. (Willa Cather Quotes)
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. (Willa Cather Quotes)
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. (Willa Cather Quotes)
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. (Willa Cather Quotes)
To fulfil the dreams of one’s youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that. (Willa Cather Quotes)
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. (Willa Cather Quotes)
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. (Willa Cather Quotes)
The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death (Willa Cather Quotes)
I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all. (Willa Cather Quotes)
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do (Willa Cather Quotes)
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of (Willa Cather Quotes)
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is (Willa Cather Quotes)
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer (Willa Cather Quotes)
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen (Willa Cather Quotes)
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening (Willa Cather Quotes)
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything (Willa Cather Quotes)