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“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.”

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Willa Cather livre The Song of the Lark

Part VI, Ch. 11
The Song of the Lark (1915)

“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice. But in Black Hawk the scene of human life was spread out shrunken and pinched, frozen down to the bare stalk.”

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Willa Cather livre My Ántonia

Book II, Ch. 7
My Antonia (1918)

“Father Latour judged that, just as it was the white man's way to assert himself in any landscape, to change it, make it over a little (at least to leave some mark of memorial of his sojourn), it was the Indian's way to pass through a country without disturbing anything; to pass and leave no trace, like fish through the water, or birds through the air.
It was the Indian manner to vanish into the landscape, not to stand out against it. The Hopi villages that were set upon rock mesas were made to look like the rock on which they sat, were imperceptible at a distance.”

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Willa Cather livre Death Comes for the Archbishop

Book VII, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

“Alexandra drew her shawl closer about her and stood leaning against the frame of the mill, looking at the stars which glittered so keenly through the frosty autumn air. She always loved to watch them, to think of their vastness and distance, and of their ordered march. It fortified her to reflect upon the great operations of nature, and when she thought of the law that lay behind them, she felt a sense of personal security.”

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Willa Cather livre O Pioneers!

Part I, Ch. 5
O Pioneers! (1913)

“Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.”

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"Four Letters: Escapism" (1936)
Willa Cather on Writing (1949)

“That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.”

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Willa Cather livre Death Comes for the Archbishop

Book I, Ch. 3
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

“The years seemed to stretch before her like the land: spring, summer, autumn, winter, spring; always the same patient fields, the patient little trees, the patient lives; always the same yearning; the same pulling at the chain — until the instinct to live had torn itself and bled and weakened for the last time, until the chain secured a dead woman, who might cautiously be released.”

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Willa Cather livre O Pioneers!

Part IV, Ch. 5
O Pioneers! (1913)

“The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.”

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"The Novel Démeublé"
Not Under Forty (1936)

“Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.”

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Willa Cather livre The Song of the Lark

Part II, Ch. 3
The Song of the Lark (1915)

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