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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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Her secret? It is every artist’s secret . . . passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials.

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate!

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

My Antonia

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She used to drag her mattress beside her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.

The Song of the Lark

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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Born in Gore, Virginia, on December 7, 1873, Cather moved with her family to Nebraska as a child. This experience profoundly shaped her writing, which often portrays the harsh realities and aspirations of settlers in the American Midwest. She attended the University of Nebraska and, after graduating, moved to Pittsburgh, where she worked as an editor and drama critic. Her literary career flourished in New York, where she became a prominent figure in the literary scene. Cather gained critical acclaim for novels such as 'O Profeta da Morte' (1913), 'Minha Ânia' (1915), and 'Um Canto de Mildred' (1922). Her prose is celebrated for its clarity, lyrical beauty, and deep understanding of human psychology. She received the Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1930 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1923. Willa Cather passed away on April 24, 1947.