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Willa Cather

"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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"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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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

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"God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is."

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"God always strives together with those who strive."

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"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."

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"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

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"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

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"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."

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"As I went back alone over that familiar road, I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along beside me, as our shadows used to do, laughing and whispering to each other in the grass."
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