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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."
"The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority."
"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."
"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
"When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."
"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."
"I believe that Gaston Cleric narrowly missed being a great poet, and I have sometimes thought that his outbursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication. How often have I seen him draw his dark brows together, fix his eyes upon some object on the wall or a figure in the carpet, and then flash into the lamplight the very image that was in his brain."
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