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Willa Cather

"The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire."

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"The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing - desire."

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"Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck."

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"Greed is a little bit more than enough."

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"What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch."

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"We come to this world with an abundance of hope, a deep desire to love, and a longing to belong."

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"Life is a game of dreams and desires."

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"Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possesses is attraction. It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart."

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"Not everyone who owns it, Loves it; nor everyone who Loves it, Can own it!"

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"Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing."

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"We want money but we crave appreciation."

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"It is not the fame, not the flesh, not the money. We want something else, something pretty."

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"The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it-for a little while."
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