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Willa Cather

"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."

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"Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."

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"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."
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"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
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"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
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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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"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
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"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
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"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."
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"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."
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"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
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